Incorrectness of my own perception

In the shade of a tree sat an old man on his haunches. I was in Lewe, a friendly town in the southeast of Myanmar, formerly Burma. The old man had a heavy but manageable rock in his right hand, in his lap a collection of old batteries....

Entrepreneurship with guts

  β€œThe cat in the corner is on its ninth life” I recently read this headline in a Dutch newspaper. The article under the suggestive headline was not a story about a master con man, finally unmasked. Nor did I hear a critical argument from an analytical...

With all due respect to Descartes, it's all nonsense

What makes us human? The question of what makes a human being human and not an animal has been a headache for generations of researchers and philosophers. The answer to that question also changes over time. Only recently were people from Africa not considered human. Today...

Another view on Timo Huges

In 2010 I interviewed Timo Huges, then director of Flora Holland. I am happy to share this old story. It has become part of my book Slangenbezweerders and provides an additional view of the top executive who unexpectedly left the Dutch Railways. Timo Huges...