The back cover of your book With a well-written back cover you can already start promoting your book. You can also approach publishers, sponsors and potential buyers, ask for feedback from future readers and start the presale! Plus, your back cover gives you the structure to write the [...]
Inspiration shot Summer 2012 Fun videos Save time with clever software Inspiring websites Vacation or business trip to a foreign city? Small budget or don’t fancy an anonymous hotel? Solution: stay with a local through www.airbnb.com Feel like a nice activity in [...]
Show off! It’s as if we Dutch are raised with some sort of false modesty: ‘Act normal, and you’re strange enough…’ Compliment someone on their clothing and you’ll almost always get the answer ‘I bought it on sale’. Ask someone what they’re good at and you’ll get all [...]
Make your weakness your greatest strength After Steve Jobs died, I, like half of the rest of the world, devoured his book. It was fascinating to read how such a jerk of a guy could come up with such brilliant ideas! It was even more interesting to [...]
The US Virgin islands consist of three big islands (St Thomas, St John and St Croix) and some smaller ones. They used to be Danish, until the US bought them in the 1930’s because they were afraid the Germans would get hold of the strategic [...]
In the spring of 2012 I sailed around Puerto Rico for a month. After visiting most of the Caribbean islands, Puerto Rico was probably the biggest surprise for me. It is part of the USA and yet it feels like a completely different world. The country [...]
TEDxCuracao A lesson in perseverance... I was pretty excited about my TEDx presentation in Curaçao (2011). Even as a seasoned speaker, it is always an honor to be considered for an event like this. Another perk was that I had been trying for years to get an English [...]
What is real? Photoshop. Corruption. Hacked bank sites. Charity scandals. Reality TV. Botox. Do you ever wonder what’s still real? In the States they even use the phrase ‘with real butter flavor’ on packages of fake butter! How long before this plastic fantastic creeps into Dutch lives? My [...]
Inspiration shot Fall 2011 Fun videos Save time with clever software Inspiring websites On Workflowy.com you can create endless ‘to do’ (and other) lists. You can also share lists with others, so you can brainstorm or work on projects together. Takes no [...]
Security or adventure? I find myself increasingly confronted with a luxury problem: too many choices! So many fun projects, beautiful countries to visit, interesting people to meet, films to see, books to read: it’s impossible to keep up. The more the 24-hour economy (with new media and the [...]
