Jeroen Sangers

Usually when organizations talk about a VUCA environment, they are simply covering up bad planning, collaboration and organizational practices.

If you apply the growth mindset to organizations, you should stop talking about VUCA.

You can’t control the future:

When the future doesn’t cooperate, we spend even more time trying to change the next bit of future so that it ends up more closely matching the future we were hoping for.

What if, instead, just for a little while, we simply did our best?

I am too busy now, but when I have the opportunity (probably this summer) I would like to migrate this blog from Wordpress to micro.blog.

What I believe in:

While there are many benefits to using software tools, there are many hidden costs as well. Consider all the time you’ve spent researching, learning, evaluating, upgrading, and maintaining various software tools. Are you getting a good payoff for your investment when you consider the total time you’ve had to invest?

Now add the additional time you may have lost from digital distractions when you use software tools, especially on an Internet connected device. How often did you break away from using a genuine productivity tool to check email or social media or to look something up online?

40 years of experience working from home compressed into 10 pieces of solid advice:

While there are many benefits to using software tools, there are many hidden costs as well. Consider all the time you’ve spent researching, learning, evaluating, upgrading, and maintaining various software tools. Are you getting a good payoff for your investment when you consider the total time you’ve had to invest?

Now add the additional time you may have lost from digital distractions when you use software tools, especially on an Internet connected device. How often did you break away from using a genuine productivity tool to check email or social media or to look something up online?

These days, give yourself permission to be human.

Stop Trying to Be Productive × Taylor Lorenz

I was born in 1971, so you can imagine my interest in the site WTF happened in 1971.

6 tools that are more powerful than to-do lists for productivity × Stephanie Vozza

How to Stay Productive with Children At Home

I am worried about my fellow Dutch citizens. The general idea in the Netherlands is that they have the coronavirus under control, but they have not.

The death numbers are following Italy’s numbers and today arrived at the point in which Italy went on lock down (which was already rather late).

Furthermore, the Netherlands are a small country. This amount of deaths has placed them at the 5th position on the ranking of deaths per 100.000 habitants (after San Marino, Italy, Spain and Andorra).

Why doesn’t the Dutch government want to take action?

My advice for businesses: dump Zoom as soon as possible. For most use cases (small team meetings) I recommend Whereby as an alternative.

New circumstances make for new routines.

One of the new routines in our family is taking some time after dinner to listen to the song of the day created by these three guys.

Featured in The New Yorker: The Group Making Beautiful Quarantine Songs on a Barcelona Rooftop.

Surely I’m old school, but I still think that Twitter threads are a horrible and user-unfriendly hack.

Why don’t you just publish your thoughts on a place that supports long-form copy and link to it on Twitter?

Please remember:

We’re always in control of the two most important determinants in our lives:

a.) How we spend our time.

and…

b.) Where we direct our focus.

(Via Wally Bock)

Will Zoom’s free tier limits finally achieve that business meetings will be limited to 40 minutes?

I always published under my real name, but the concept of pseudonyms interests me

Over time, doing things under your real name on the internet will be a bit like putting your social security number out there. It won’t commonly be done. Instead, people will earn and speak under different pseudonyms.

Many professionals found out last week that work is no longer a place, it it a mode.

I have updated my Now page

What a great trip through memory lane: Old CSS, new CSS by Eevee.

I have used most of the techniques on this very site until 2013, when I stopped caring about the hassle of coding my designs by hand.

Nowadays my opinion is that site owners should not be bothered by CSS, that’s something the CMS should handle.

This is hilarious: I work from home by Colin Nissan

Spring on the balcony

The list is your assistant

Another walk in the orchards

A great list of dumb questions by Michael Wade

I find it surprising that many knowledge workers create task management systems, but never think about knowledge management systems.