The art of change has to do with being a good traveller. You need to know what direction you want to go, but also WHEN you CAN, or SHOULD change direction. Pace layering has a wonderful, simple way of showing how change in fundamental layers in our life is hard and why. It also informs…
Vibe coding, vibe designing and agentic coding has laid bare a new field of design: vibe agent assisted market testing. The alcoholic version would be: what if you – as a layman- have a fridge filled with your best spirits, condiments and wines and you just start mixing and tasting without getting drunk with all…
Are you somebody that talks to your office software? “No I mean, select this, and leave everything else!” Well, it seems that the YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN-factor is perhaps one of the neatest A.I. adjacent interface enrichments we’ve come across.Take this wonderful architectural interface by Studio Tim Fu created out of thin air, just…
I’m working on an article on the inherent messiness of our lives and how sameness and uniformity in our society is celebrated to our collective and individual decrement. It’s based on this wonderful conversation with Ron Kersic almost a year ago. The analogy we use is this: like the Wizard of Oz, we try to…
I’m Peter Sneekes, a creative strategist. I help private and public organisations to accellerate their strategic innovation, empathic and design capabilities. For over 20 years I have been a strong voice on creating strategic tools to help your products and strategies match the needs of citizens, customers, employees and society. For any project you need…
The first pure VIBE research agency? Vibe is externalised instinct, happenstance on demand, crafted artisan bravery and luck by numbers. AI helps the creatively limited, cognitive fatigued, and perspectively perplexed. The pure vibe research agency pushes these concepts in a service with a research flavour. Thoroughly backed by electronic nostalgia, lost inspiration and shaped to…
Your AI might be delusional and its probably done by hackers, confusion patterns and musicians? Your Agentic AI could make important descisions on data that was poisoned at the well and could break the reliability boundaries AI companies have set for them. What if I told you these poisoned models cannot be detected, until you…
Waardevolle kennis, ervaring en mindset lopen vrij rond in Nederland, maar de overheid maakt geen gebruik van deze potentie en richt zich alleen op jong talent. Ik spreek deze experts, pioniers en radicalen in mijn onderzoek naar De Moderne Overheid. Ze willen graag, maar de overheid durft niet? Ziet ze niet? Doet aanames? Er zijn…
Some people would recognize this iconic image of me as Design Sprinter and my humongous TimeTimers. 😅 😎 I just had to try this awesome image generation feature of Open AI and I find it quite impressive. I used an old photo of myself, from the times when I regularly held Design Sprints with our…
Involving and listening to insurance experts might be the best route to quickly, safely integrate new tech into our lives without fuzz. The main problem of new technology is that people are still figuring it out, using it in ways it’s not meant to be used and unwittingly causing real damage. Here’s an anthropological perspective…
When you try to figure out why politicians and municipalities make certain decisions and what information they share among themselves you’ll get nowhere with Google, or Bing, or even ChatGPT. You’ll find nothing useful, or only a few scant news items. BeleidsRadar(.nl) puts an end to these shortcomings! I highly recommended BeleidsRadar for journalists, citizens…
‘Strategies, ideas and projects’ seems to be the core of innovation for most people. True innovation however, is aimed at capability, mindset and transformation of yourself and that of your organisation. Ideas, strategies and perhaps even scale will follow. First, one needs to practice. The anecdote of the image below is about Mischa Elman a…
Entropy is a bitch, and we’re all going to see the effects of it in 3, 2, 1 … Everybody is talking about the avalanche of new, cheaper, large language models (LLM’s) and other AI implementations. DeepSeek, also known as CheapSeek seems to stand out because it’s based on the ‘heavy lifting’ done by other…
START Designing WITH people! Stop designing AT them. 😅 Designers have been tasked with the optimization game for decades now. They filter the needs and behaviours of people through their filters, beit designer, or corporate filter, departmental politics, old fashioned principles, out dated business models, legislation and personal incentives. It’s time to stop eavesdropping and…
Why Do People Expect AI to Create Perfect (Accurate, Not Ideal) Images? I find that expectation a bit disappointing—a lack of imagination, really. Every time, we’re surprised by AI’s inaccuracies, by how it’s not real or doesn’t add up. But you could also say: “Cool, that’s beautiful inspiration.” With just a few words, AI makes…
In Amer’s Podcast I mentioned ‘metabolism’, an architecture movement with principles and perspective that might be applicable in my field of work (Innovation, Design and enterprise Design). Here’s some more information on that notion. See, I get a lot of inspiration from architecture in my quest to better articulate the things I see, but also…
Since the 60’s innovation, research has stagnated to almost zero because of all the bureaucracy that hampers focus, risk taking and yield quality. That’s one of the very poignant points of this wonderful video by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder. Not only does bureaucracy stagnate innovation, but also research, productivity and real breakthroughs. And there ironically is…
To create good policy, you need to understand what is happening, what the cause is, and for that, you need data. Unfortunately, much data is hidden in databases, reports and unconnected data lakes. It can be challenging to turn these data into insights. Data engineering, economic knowledge and storytelling helps with this, particularly by visualizing…
AI seems to have popped up in all our contracts with big companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google. Like a trojan horse we are now confronted with the “same product, better taste” using AI, weather we like it or not, no matter the consequences. The way they introduced AI to us, changed the way we…
People and organisations seem to make poor, overly rational and most of all defensive decisions about their future. Identity Driven Progress is a tool to leverage your (corporate) identity in tech, innovation, design to gain focus and make great decisions, even if they turn our differently. The following story will explain why, what and how.…