Scanning the surface. A preview edition. More to come. Always. There’s always more to come. And always later. Interesting stuff 1 I got an email from one of our IT service suppliers about how they joined another company for scale and efficiency reasons and how they made some changes in management. So far so good. So far all generic text and reassuring language. “Nothing will change for you”, “you can be sure you receive the quality you deserve” or something along those lines. ...

Short one. Gary doesn’t like Yann AI flame war, Gary Marcus puts Yann Lecun’s fame in perspective. An evening stroll I was walking my dog the other day when we ran into the sphinx “Good morning sphinx”, I said The sphinx said nothing “How was your weekend sphinx?”, I tried The sphinx stared into the distance My dog came up carrying a note in his mouth I deciphered the note: “The net serves to catch the fish; once the fish is caught, the net must be forgotten. The snare serves to catch the rabbit. Once the rabbit is caught, the snare is forgotten. Words serve to catch meaning; once the meaning has been caught, the words can be forgotten. If only I could find someone who has forgotten the words, someone I could talk to for a while.”[1] ...

This one is about reading. And about life. La condition humaine. And a bit about AI and IT. And also a bit about the EO adoption cycle-curve-graph. An evening stroll I was walking my dog the other day when we ran into the bear “Good morning bear”, I said “I’m not a bear”, the panda said “Alles blijft” “Alles gaat voorbij” “Alles blijft voorbijgaan”, the panda said The panda stared into the horizon ...

Why not have another edition of This Hollow Earth? Here’s some random ramblings and thoughts that circled my brain while doing the dishes. get rid of your dishwasher Dishwashers are a source of stress. Do the dishes yourself instead: 30 minutes meditative work per day keeps the doctor away. Alternatively: buy a dog. An evening stroll I was walking my dog the other day when we ran into the kingfisher ...

We’re back. “Arjen, what happened to your newsletter?” Well, this happened. And this. And now we’re back. Let’s pick it back up slow and easy kids. Science, research, conferences The scientific community and their conferences can be a crazy bunch. My French friend Sonia went to this conference organised by a person who identifies as a pirate. Walks around the conference dressed up as a pirate. Very cool research though. At the same conference, the, apparently, (in)famous Johan Rockström hang out (or maybe I mix up events). Never heard of the kind man (impossible personality) but he is (one of the) originators of the Planetary Boundaries Framework. ...