Recovery by Switching to Roles and Activities and Away From Tasks 🔗
Over the past month or two, after our return from Portugal I’ve been slowly improving and overcoming my burn-out. I’m at a point where I am eager to d [...]
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July 6, 2026 6:07 PM
Favorited Ikigai Collective by David Orban Yes, this type of exploration is important. Without a set purpose as goal, but certainly not without purpos [...]
US Supreme Court Ends The Pretence of The EU – US Data Privacy Framework 🔗
European Data Protection makes it illegal to transfer person identifiable data to outside the EU. Unless there is equivalence in data protection, or a [...]
Agentic Skills As Knowledge Management System? 🔗
In a session today there was some discussion about agentic skills. A skill is mostly a markdown text file often named, yes, skill.md with a natural la [...]
Not Fully Digitally Sovereign Versus Increasing Cost of Leaving 🔗
In a session earlier today the deployment of a tool was discussed in an organisation’s information environment that is otherwise fully dominated by Mi [...]
Open State Foundation zoekt nieuwe directeur 🔗
Bij de Open State Foundation (waar ik voorzitter ben) zoeken we een nieuwe directeur! Herken jij je in het profiel (PDF), en ben je net zo bevlogen al [...]
June 25, 2026 12:49 PM
In reply to Setting up Webmentions by Alex Hyett It’s always good to see a blogger adding Webmentions to their site. Cross-blog conversations are to m [...]
A Weekend in Grisons 🔗
Last week I spent a few days in Switzerland. I went to Zürich on Thursday to meet up with a few people, having a pleasant chat with Beat Döbeli about [...]
Four Gun Salute Going To The Office 🔗
The Open State Foundation has its office on the old naval yard in the heart of Amsterdam. Right next to the national maritime museum, in the 17th cent [...]
Zeg DOEI! tegen Big Tech 🔗
Het is DOEI! Dag, de eerste zondag van de maand om mezelf en anderen aan te moedigen weer een stapje te zetten weg van BigTech. Stap je mee? Blogpost [...]
June 5, 2026 2:02 PM
Favorited The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book by Wouter Groeneveld On occasion I’ve mentioned here that one way of ensuring longevity of [...]
Data Space Standardisation in a Volcano 🔗
Trains at Atocha station Madrid I spent the week in Ciudad Real in Spain, under an hour by high speed train (~200km) south of Madrid. I was there for [...]
A Different Script Is Not a Code To Crack – Greek Edition 🔗
There is a lot of sloppy journalism out there. Obvious questions not asked, basic facts not gotten straight, numbers literally not adding up, tens to [...]
Meeting Friends in Rotterdam 🔗
This weekend we took a train to Rotterdam. We decided to spend a day there, as our Canadian friends Peter and Lisa were coming up from Bruges in Belgi [...]
Portugal in Spring 🔗
We spent a week and a half in Portugal this spring. Traveling together is something we do well with the three of us, and something I find healing. Alt [...]
A Short Walk 🔗
As I mentioned in my previous post The Long Walk, I struggle to get out of the house and away from my laptop to take short walks in the neighbourhood [...]
The Long Walk 🔗
It is now two years ago that during a day trip E and I had a conversation about my wellbeing in which I broke down in tears and we came to the conclus [...]
Stop and think 🔗
In reply to Stop and think by Paolo Valdemarin This made me stop and think. My company contains a well above average number of actual philosophers, 50 [...]
Three AI Helper Experiments in Information Habits 🔗
In the past week I’ve started three personal experiments that use AI (in this case Claude Code). For each, the experiment lies in automating steps in [...]
Kindle Unlimited Exclusivity 🔗
Since the start of last year I have not been spending any money at Amazon. I’ve been happily buying my reading elsewhere. Today for the first time I r [...]
Favorited Headless Everything For Personal AI 🔗
Favorited Headless Everything For Personal AI by Matt Webb I see this being adopted around me too. Not just CLI’s though, also more APIs, pulling in d [...]
When My Grandfather Took a Train Trip With a Bull 🔗
My grandfather Klaas Zijlstra (1905-1993) was a farmer and cattle raiser. He grew up in Fryslân and always wanted to be a farmhand it seems (his fathe [...]
Radio-gerucht in Amersfoort! Houdt deuren en vensters gesloten! 🔗
Uit de Haagse krant van woensdag 25 juli 1928: Tegen radio-gerucht Raad van Amersfoort neemt maatregelen De Gemeenteraad van Amersfoort heeft een vero [...]
Manipulating My E-Books 🔗
Earlier this week I started reading an ebook and was a bit irritated because the book did not show me a table of contents. This seems to be a regular [...]
human.json 🔗
Favorited AI Policy and Human.json by Claudine Chionh Favorited Adding human.json to WordPress by Terence Eden Claudine Chionh and Terence Eden both m [...]