With the recent announcements on google search we can now start to approach some software as ‘fast fashion’, or disposable software. And this has some crucial consequences how we regard the making of software and how, or rather if we need to build software to last. Google broke with the tradition of lists in your…
Failing software under the cloak of innovation. I’ve been building software and digital products and services for 30 years now, and that digital cloak is exactly where things go wrong. It makes people invisible, makes dialogue impossible, and silences ordinary everyday people. AND NO ONE SEES IT. Money in your pocket. Do you still have…
I just love conversations with Ron Kersic. Out of the blue he introduces wonderful terms like “Luxury Tokens”. It must be one of my favorites and comparing it with handbags… chefs-kiss. I just had to make this image to fit the meme. Ron and I talk about luxury tokens in our podcast It’s Just A…
It was quite wonderful, but …. Here’s a short share of my experience at PublicSpaces Conference last Friday. To dive right into it: the speakers at this conference spoke about the urgency and acuteness of various themes in Europe and the world. At the conference people could consider the function and speak about their interest…
The definition of madness is no change, and still expect different outcomes. A few decades ago Brian Eno made a stack of wonderful ‘oblique strategies’: cars with strategies that change your perspective, actions, force you to do, view, act, make different. I printed this pack of strategies, so I can take it with me, when…
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…
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…