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Feb 3, 2025: Amsterdam, crossing ‘t Ij
Dec 7, 2024: Finished reading: Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse 📚 – Another book that has been on the list of years. I enjoyed the perspectives …
Dec 7, 2024: Finished reading: The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier 📚 this has been on my list for years too. It’s a quick read, and maybe longer …
Dec 7, 2024: Finished reading: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman 📚 – I finished this book a few weeks ago after having it on my list for a few …
Nov 17, 2024: I’m juggling with my accounts on micro.blog (cross posting to Mastodon, Bluesky and Pixelfed), Mastodon (2 accounts) and omg.lol (cross posting to …
Nov 4, 2024: It’s nice and cold
Oct 27, 2024: Finished reading: Better Small Talk: Talk to Anyone, Avoid Awkwardness, Generate Deep Conversations, and Make Real Friends by Patrick King 📚 I …
Oct 24, 2024: Valencia ‘24
Oct 20, 2024: Valencia ‘24
Oct 12, 2024: Finished reading: The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm 📚I finally finished this short book. A few years ago I received it from a colleague who said he’d …
Oct 10, 2024: Finished reading: Magisteria by Nicholas Spencer 📚 — I enjoyed this book. It provides me with a lot of context beyond the simple historic moments in …
Oct 7, 2024: It has been a 100 days since I picked up language learning again. The streak is a strong motivator, and so are family, friends and colleagues, all …
Sep 5, 2024: It’s a strange to realise that we’ll soon head into autumn. People are still in their shorts and shirts, skirts and tank tops. 2 weeks from now the …
Sep 1, 2024: This should cross-post to several locations now. Adding an image of the dog to see how that turns up at the various ends. And after posting: it made …
Aug 24, 2024: Currently reading: Magisteria by Nicholas Spencer 📚 Science and region found themselves in various inconclusive — sometimes beneficial, sometimes …
Aug 15, 2024: Finished reading: A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr 📚I picked this up after someone blogged about it and finished in with a few days 4/5
Aug 10, 2024: Finished reading: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 📚This was my summer read. I found it being discussed aa influential in the youth of some …
Aug 8, 2024: Finished reading: EMPOWERED by Marty Cagan — recommended by colleagues; read in order, and see the thoughts about the role of product management …
Aug 8, 2024: Finished reading: The Sound of the Future by Tobias Dengel — great examples, and process, but it likely turned old quite quickly as the world is moves …
Jul 28, 2024: Summer Holiday 2024, France It’s a hot summer night with more stars to see than back home.
Feb 2, 2024: Morning commute, Amsterdam Lynn told me the spelling of the name of this store indicates it’s owned by a family from either Singapore or Hong Kong.
Jan 27, 2024: Just unboxed a new vacuum cleaner! Our robo vac wasn’t cutting it, especially with multiple floors. My daughter’s thrilled about the new one – it’s …
Sep 10, 2023: Finished reading: Collaborating with the Enemy by Adam Kahane 📚 4/5
Jul 14, 2023: Finished reading: Red Notice by Bill Browder 📚— this book was recommended by a friend a few months ago as a fascinating read on Russia, and mentioned …
May 20, 2023: Finished reading: American Gods by Neil Gaiman 📚— It was hard to put away. I like how Neil Gaiman writes and combines a world of Gods, myths and …
May 8, 2023: Finished reading: The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray 📚 — second time that the initial minutes put me off due to the topics discussed (as I’ve had …
May 7, 2023: The Parent Trap, 1998 - ★★★★½ Watched on Wednesday May 3, 2023.
May 7, 2023: The Marriage Escape, 2020 - ★★★★½ Watched on Sunday April 23, 2023.
May 7, 2023: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 2022 - ★★★★ I finally got around seeing this film. It got quite some slack from friends, so I didn't expect much of it. Still I enjoyed it.
Apr 23, 2023: Finished reading: Thomas Jefferson by R. B. Bernstein 📚— I wanted to learn more about some of the American history, as well as try a second biography. …
Apr 23, 2023: Finished reading: The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚 —> a former manager (American) asked me some time ago if I had read this book. …
Mar 26, 2023: Finished reading: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by M. Gandhi 📚— this was recommended to me a few years ago, I finally got around to listen …
Mar 11, 2023: Finished reading: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell 📚 — this was a quick listen. The audio version wasn’t just the book read by the author, but …
Feb 28, 2023: Finished reading: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 📚 — This book was recommended to me in the summer of 2021. I once started reading, …
Feb 25, 2023: Finished reading: The History of Magic by Chris Gosden 📚 — this was quite a long listen. I did enjoy most of it. The book spans a way longer history …
Feb 25, 2023: Finished reading: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman 📚 — I started to read this back in the summer of ‘22 but only finished it with the audio version. The …
Feb 25, 2023: Finished reading: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli 📚 — this is a short book. Very accessible and with a great writing style. It covers both theory …
Feb 25, 2023: Finished reading: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 📚 — while interesting and mostly accessible, some parts were to theoretical for me to …
Feb 17, 2023: Finished reading: DisneyWar by James B. Stewart 📚 I never thought I would be drawn into a corporate drama like this. It’s amazing to hear this story, …
Jan 6, 2023: I made it to the Benelux office, 2 years and 1 day after joining Disney Streaming. Starting 2023 I’ll be in the office a little more often.
Dec 31, 2022: I finished listening: The War on the West by Douglas Murray — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — initially I was afraid this would be to rightist for my taste, but I found …
Dec 29, 2020: Something new starting 2021
Nov 2, 2020: I’m almost ready to do another class for Beeckestijn. Tomorrow I’ll have 8 people in my group for a deep dive in Voice technology and use cases. I’m …
Nov 2, 2020: Currently reading: Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker 📚
Aug 11, 2020: Experiment: Publieke dagelijkse Audio update De eerste update in audio vorm hier. Wat we nu al iets langer dan een week af en aan via Cappuccino doen — een app die je in staat stelt om een social …
Aug 11, 2020: Summertime 😓
Jun 19, 2020: Learnings en ideeën na live streaming met Arthur Net heb ik met Arthur de derde livestream sessie gehad. Sinds vorige week hebben we een korte checklist met items die we wilden verbeteren. Bv de …
Jun 10, 2020: Learnings Zoom college geven Gisteren gaf ik via zoom een college over Voice. Dit was de eerste keer dat ik virtueel les gaf, dus tijd om wat punten van reflectie te delen zodat …
Apr 29, 2020: Future music formats I like how Matt Webb continues to imagine possible futures. This is all about music and standards, and how they change over time with new media forms …
Mar 12, 2020: Besides listing speaking engagements, let’s also move this to a domain that is easier to remember: warnaars.com
Mar 7, 2020: With all the list keeping, why not keep some lists in public? I just started to make a list of all the public speaking engagements I had in the past …
Jan 24, 2020: Multiple floors of painted trains
Jan 23, 2020: I’ve been looking for the settings to setup cross posting from here to twitter, but so far with no success. Based on the info on the help page …
Oct 15, 2019: Not much has changed since I was at that stage 19 years ago.
May 21, 2016: The Incredibles, 2004 Watched on Saturday May 21, 2016.
Apr 16, 2016: The Good Dinosaur, 2015 Watched on Saturday April 16, 2016.
Sep 12, 2006: The concept of time in traffic I am jammed in traffic. Again. What is getting to me is the lack of patience of some of the drivers here. Okay, it’s not like everybody is …
Sep 12, 2006: Planning, Tracking and Estimation Awareness Workshop This week I might not be able to upload a lot of stories. We spend a lot of time in Manga Dua, in North Jakarta. Here we have a program filled with …
Sep 11, 2006: All my bags are packed, it's early morn.. It’s early Monday morning in Jakarta. In our car James Blunt sings his songs, as he usually does when the boss has been using the driver the …
Mar 11, 2006: DiningRia: Lapo In am getting behind on schedule. There are so many things I need to write about. I think I’ll just have to skip some things to shorten the list. I’ll …
Feb 7, 2006: Entering the next level I recently came across an opening at an Information Communication and Technology (ICT) company and, after giving it some thought, I find it quite …