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I explore how ideas emerge, why products get stuck and how possibilities become something that works. Sometimes that is about marketing and product development, sometimes about collaboration, health or life itself.

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A letter to Albert Camus

‘Truth, like light, dazzles. Lie, on the other hand, is a beautiful twilight that raises every object.’ The Fall - Clamence (Albert Camus) Monsieur Albert Camus, Auriez-vous l'amabilité d'accepter cette lettre? You may not be waiting…

03-01-2025

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Water is necessary

Dreaming about water. Any mighty ship can float on it. Setting course to desired destinations. No matter how much water there is. Ships don't sink because of the water around them. They sink because of the water entering them. Then it's…

13-08-2022

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Looking out for each other

Never underestimate the person who is processing trauma. This person has seen through the darkest places the world holds but is still standing before you. Determined to experience the warmth of light again. It is always the strongest…

09-02-2022

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Loose society

A government that dismantles the connecting social shell and even chooses to strengthen the controlling and repressive shell under the guise of a small effective and decisive government will reap a society of distrust. The balance has…

09-02-2022

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The cry of a seagull

Looking out the window, I see the screeching gulls. There are many of them screaming loudly. Living on the simple waves of sound. Thus guarding their territory and conquering new booty. As gulls, we too bivouac in noisy colonies. By…

09-02-2022

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If a farmer can't swim, it's because of the water.

If a farmer can't swim.... it's because of the water. It was a favorite saying of my father. Often heard during my childhood. The farmer always has an explanation as to why he can't do something. Every time I took too little personal…

17-06-2021

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Why do I write?

Even at a young age, I could become completely absorbed in all kinds of stories. In my youth, it was the adventures of Old Shatterhand that I could dream away at. The German writer Karl May had given himself the lead role in his…

06-06-2021

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Goodbye Manfred Bik

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy"​ Our first conversation was a few years ago. It started with a business job. I needed a narrative for Salland Health Insurance and through…

23-03-2021