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…
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…
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…
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.…
For Eraneos I’ve written this article about choosing the right innovation strategy. The article can be found on the Eraneos website. Below is my maintained article. Most of the communication and skills in the field of innovation are aimed at ‘discovery’. Discovery is about how to free yourself from your biases, daily grind and set…
For Eraneos I’ve co-written an article about the hidden innovation power of IT partners. Here in we also posited a new way to shape collaborations between various parties. This service of shaping said collaborations (partnerships) is what we also offered to our customers. This article is published on the Eraneos website: Gebruik de innovatiekracht van…
We started fall 2023 with a nice event and some afterthoughts. After being out of the digital agency game for almost 3 years, it was time to dive deep and see what the digital brands of tomorrow look like. These are my impressions of my visit to Emerce eDay 2023. Experience Building at scale eDay…
Improving the Customer Experience your organization provides takes time, but can we make our own journey a bit smarter? I think we can. It takes a quick scan to plot yourself, your team, your products and services on the ‘maturity map’, followed by a list of recommended improvements, learning tracks, internal and external stakeholder engagement…
Last week we had our first Petcha-Kucha-like gathering at our Anchormen office and it was a great start of a series to connect with colleagues we see less often than we like. We call it Re:Connect. We started with three short and inspiring presentations, followed by snacks and great conversations. Re:Connect is our way to…
Last week I left Rotterdam with a huge smile on my face: Thingscon was beyond what I expected. The conference on connected technology research and design with themes like empathy, sustainability and tangibility felt like a warm and welcoming bath. Here are some highlights and impressions of the 1.1 day long gathering. To preface: I…