In 2013, I crossed my own boundary. The result was a severe burnout and a subsequent depression that lasted for about 18 months. After my healing, I decided that jobs are among my new boundaries in life. I do not consider my (almost daily) writing as working, even despite its similarities. The Google AI Overview is quite clear: Crossing your own boundaries...
Onlangs vroeg ik mijn moeder hoe het met haar ging. Ze antwoordde me met "Ik wil hier weg.....". Na een korte denkpauze vroeg ik haar waar ze dan eigenlijk naar toe wil. Dat wist ze niet. Ik zei dat er géén oplossing is. Dat begreep ze. Over die oplossing had ik namelijk al maandenlang nagedacht. Ik vertelde haar dat ze er uiteindelijk ook weg komt. Ze leek me eerst...
Recently, soul legend Sly Stone died at the age of 82. A Dutch narrative claimed his success had important drawbacks, like "drug use and erratic behavior". Apparently, success has like 20 negative factors. Hence, the article The Paradox of Success by Bill Cole. I do recognize several of those 20 factors. My career suggests I have had success. The volume of spamming...
Onlangs nam de burnout het ff van mij over. Ik werd boos - op mezelf - omdat ik mijn zaakjes niet op orde had. Vervolgens voelde ik me opgejaagd door mijn vriendin en ik waarschuwde haar: doe dat ajb niet want dat heeft nare gevolgen. Rust, orde en regelmaat zijn essentieel in mijn post-burnout leven. In mijn 2024 blog Kun je genezen van een burnout? schreef ik...
Ageing was never an issue for me. I’m still wondering why that is changing. My mother turned 90 last year. My father died in 1994 at 61. Last week, I turned 65. In my view, ageing is a blessing in disguise, even despite declining health. I suppose that (my) ageing is more visible to me than before. Probably, my eyes “opened” after falling from an electric bike...
My blog title is borrowed from a recent PS article that caught my interest. Wealth has always been a metric for Power. It’s very hard to imagine that Big Tech billionaires could - let alone would - be considered a metric for wisdom. Nevertheless, the quote below suggests differently. “In an America where wealth has increasingly become the primary source of social...
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