25 Countries, 40 Cities, 200 Days
I feel I’m blessed. This year I traveled to 25 countries, had events in 40 cities, and spent almost 200 nights away from home. (See the...
When Something Is Painful, Do It Daily
When something hurts, do it every day. The pain will turn into joy. There’s a well-known argument in favor of continuous delivery in th...
Promote Yourself!
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of self-promotion. How else are people going to know you might be able to generate value for them?...
A Colossal Waste of Time
Four hours of driving seems like a colossal waste of time. Last night I drove from Vienna (Austria) to Zagreb (Croatia). It wasn’t chea...
Agile.FM Podcast
Jochen Krebs of the Agile NYC community, and host of Agile.FM, asked me to participate in a podcast. We talked about Management 3.0 Worko...
Work-Life Integration and Work-Play Balance
I don’t aim for work-life balance. I aim for work-play balance, based on work-life integration.
The Meaning of Work
Do you seek a balance between work and life? Or is your meaning of work also the meaning of life? Abraham Maslow’s famous hierarchy of ...
Blueprint for a Tribal Business (Presentation)
This is the new presentation that I gave for the first time at DARE 2013 in Antwerp. It explains the reasons behind the organization of H...
What Makes a Great Conference?
I’ve been asking around on email and on the social networks what makes a conference memorable, special, or amazing. This topic h...
The Happy Melly Team
Friday was an important day for me. After months of preparations, announcements, and discussions Happy Melly finally took a small but sig...
One Out of Five
I once made some simple cartoon strips and sent them to several national newspapers, asking them if they wanted to publish my outbursts o...
How I Organize My Work (with Remember the Milk)
Frequently people ask me, “How can you be so productive?” The question seems a bit strange to me, because I often consider myself not...
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