Dit is een Powerpoint-presentatie uit 2013 gemaakt om te laten zien hoe slimme hulpmiddelen zoals semantic mining, sensors en proces-management kan helpen om de processen in de gezondheidszorg te ondersteunen. Er wordt gebruik gemaakt van Paths of Change (PoC) van Will McWhinney om het gebied in kaart te brengen. Dit gebeurt stap voor stap waarbij [...]
Doctor Out of the Box (In Dutch)
By May 1st, 2018, underOver Integrale Zorg en de Zelf-Ontplooiende Stad (In Dutch)
By April 22nd, 2018, underDit document is in 2014 geschreven. Het is eerste instantie gebruikt om een nieuwe (meer sociale) strategie voor de ABN AMRO te ontwikkelen. Het is later gebruikt als discussie-stuk toen er sprake was van het oprichten van een coordinerend Centrum voor Vitaliteit in Leiden. Dit centrum was bedoeld om lokale centra op te richten waarbij er [...]
Over de Magie van de Anti-Kwetsbaarheid (in Dutch)
By March 8th, 2018, underDeze blog is het gevolg van een presentatie over Anti-Fragility die ik op 7-9-2016 heb gegeven voor de sofware-architecten van de KNVI (Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging van Informatieprofessionals). De presentatie in 2016 begon met een verhaal over mijn Smart City-project in Den Haag (“Smart Urban Space”). Dit stuk van de presentatie is hier weggelaten op de conclusie [...]
Over de Community of Practice (in Dutch)
By January 12th, 2017, underDeze blog bevat een presentatie over de Community of Practice (CoP). Een CoP is een verzameling mensen die ervaring delen. Opvallend is dat de zuivere Community of Practice niet voorkomt. Dat komt omdat men Kennis (Theorie) en Ervaring (Praktijk) door elkaar haalt. De verwarring ontstaat omdat men de theorie als “dwingende” ervaring ziet. De theorie [...]
About Alchemy and Logic
By April 28th, 2016, underThis blog is about Logic, Alchemy and the relationship between Logic and Alchemy. Classic Logic is based on the Square of Opposition of Aristotle. This square was discussed for more than 2000 years. Recently scientists detected that the Square is really a Cube. It misses an extra dimension. The Square describes the six oppositions (“dual [...]
The Wordwide Carnival: A Short Introduction into the World of Mikhail Bakhtin
By September 2nd, 2007, underThe work of Bakhtin was disclosed to me by Will McWhinney. He used Bahktin in one of the many versions of his never published book Grammars of Engagement. The discovery of Bahktin started with a book about Bahktin by Saul Morson & Caryl Emerson. Later I also read many other books and articles like “The [...]
About The Crazy Experiment of Nikola Tesla and John von Neumann
By November 15th, 2007, underOne of the most influential inventors of our time was Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). He was specialized in “Electro-Magnetic Inventions“. Tesla became a myth. He became a myth because he was not a “normal” inventor. Tesla saw his inventions in his mind. He not only saw them he could even play with them in his mind [...]
About Financial Warfare
By October 25th, 2008, underBanking originates around 3000 BC in Babylonia out of the activities of temples and palaces which provided safe places for the storage of valuables. Initially deposits of grain are accepted and later other goods including cattle, agricultural implements, and precious metals. In a later stage Silver and Gold were used to pay. From that time [...]
About Boundaries
By December 5th, 2008, underOur skin, the sea, rivers and mountains are natural boundaries. They are just there. The sexes, borders, the social classes, age, color of the skin and educational levels are Imaginary Boundaries. They move in Space and Time. They exist because Humans believe they exist. Boundaries are often created to Protect a Territory from an Outside [...]
About the Calvinistic Work Ethic
By March 12th, 2009, underThe Hebrew belief system viewed Work, seen as Manual Labour, as a Curse devised by God to punish Adam and Eve when they sinned in the Garden of Eden. Ponos is the Greek word for work, which originated from the Latin poena, meaning sorrow. At it’s core, work was associated with pain and drudgery. It was the divine [...]
About Vocation
By May 5th, 2009, underA person’s happiness and satisfaction in life is a function of how he perceives work. People perceive their work in three general categories: jobs, careers, and vocation. People who perceive their work as a Vocation report the highest Satisfaction with Life in general. A job is just a means of earning an income. When people [...]
About Behavioral Economics: Why Hawks Always Win and Doves Always Lose
By May 29th, 2009, underThe belief in Rational Decision Making has been the focus of Economic Theory for a very long time. Although everybody knew that Humans are Highly Impulsive and Emotional, Economists based their theoretical models of the Market on a Rational Human Being who is always able to Calculate the best Alternative possible. This Theory is wrong. [...]
About Addiction & Burn-Out
By July 6th, 2009, underWhen you are highly dependent on something, you are addicted to this something. You can be addicted to chemical substances like Alcohol, Nicotine and Drugs but it is also possible to Addict to the feeling of Power, a Concept (Dialogues, Cycles), an Activity (Work (Burn-Out), Gambling, Sex, Games), an Emotion (Extacy, Power, Sadness), a Person [...]
About the African Origins of the Ancient Civilization of Egypt
By August 31st, 2009, underThe Ancient Egyptians believed that their Religion originated in the Land of Punt also called Ta Netjer, the Land of the Gods. On the Reliefs of the Temples, the Puntites are always represented as African People. This Blog is the result of an Inquiry into the African Roots of Ancient Egypt. It contains the following [...]
About the Logic of Creation
By October 12th, 2009, underTo lose weight, a person needs to burn more calories than they take in. Some natural fat burners, however, may help the body burn more fat by increasing metabolism or reducing hunger. To burn fat, a person cannot rely on a single food or supplement. They also need to reduce their total calorie intake and [...]
About Morphology or How Alan Turing Made the Dream of Goethe Come True
By November 17th, 2009, underThe Ancient Greeks believed that the images of waking life and dreams came from the same source, Morpheus (Μορφέας, Μορφεύς), “He who Shapes“. The Science of the Shapes, Morphology, was created and named by Goethe in his botanical writings (“Zur Morphologie“, 1817). Goethe used comparative anatomical methods, to discover a primal plant form that would [...]
About Darwin’s Superorganism
By May 8th, 2010, underMany people believe that the theory of Evolution is based on the concept of competition. They believe that every gene, every cell, and every organism is designed to promote its own evolutionary success at the expense of others. The big problem with this concept is that it does not explain the enormous amount of cooperation [...]
About Autonomous (Smart) Systems
By June 16th, 2010, underVolvo Trucks begins installation of EV charging infrastructure Volvo Trucks has begun the installation of charging infrastructure for a fleet of electrified commercial trucks, which is being implemented in partnership with Greenlots, a member of the Shell Group. This round of heavy-duty fleet charging stations will be the first of four installations by Greenlots at [...]
About Entrainment
By August 26th, 2010, underIn 1665 the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens noticed that two pendulum clocks in his room tended to Swing in Sync. The same happens with fireflies, cardiac pacemaker cells, menstrual cycles, birds in flight, walking, dancing, circadian rhythms in animals, quantum gravity theory, dialogues and people in a crowd. Two connected Systems always Entrain because Every System [...]
A City is an Organism
By February 12th, 2011, underThe System of Life is growing in size and in complexity, and so do the infrastructures sustaining it. In the age of social media and online marketing, it’s become increasingly difficult to discern the truth from the hype when it comes to weight loss supplements. LivPure, a product that claims to help individuals shed excess [...]
About Combining the Combinations
By May 30th, 2011, under“Evolution means the creation of larger and larger islands of order at the expense of even greater seas of disorder in the world. In the process of evolution, each succeeding species is more complex and thus better equipped as a transformer of available energy.: Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy: A New World View (1980). You wouldn’t [...]
About Mystical Number Theory and Pascal’s Triangle
By December 2nd, 2011, underThe first part of this Blog is about the Triangular numbers, related to the Number 3, the Holy Trinity. The second part shows that Pascal’s Triangle (called Meru’s Mountain in Mystics), the Binomial Expansion, contains every Possible Mystical Number Pattern (including the Triangular Numbers) you can Imagine. Pascal Triangle also shows that our Universe is [...]
About Number and Magnitude
By January 9th, 2012, underWe have lost the relationship between Number and Form or Number and Magnitude as the Ancient Greeks called their Forms. A few years ago a Revolution in Mathematics and Physics has started. This revolution is caused by Geometric Algebra. In Geometric Algebra the Ancient Theories of Euclid and Pythagoras are reevaluated. Numbers are Scalar (Quantum) [...]
About Perspective
By February 2nd, 2012, underEffective Ways To Improve Production Efficiency For Your Manufacturing Business While all business owners should be taking measures to enhance efficiency, as this aspect of business growth is of extreme importance regardless of the industry, manufacturing businesses should take measures to boost production efficiency for several other reasons. These reasons range from improving workplace safety [...]
About Intelligent Design
By April 17th, 2012, underThermodynamics, the Science of Heat, became an important science in the 19th century when physicists started to improve the Steam-Machine. This blog is about a recently discovered law of Thermodynamics called the Constructal Law. The Constructal Law describes How Intelligent Systems emerge out of the Laws of Thermodynamics. According to Thermodynamics the evolution of the [...]
Spelen met tussenschotten, lagen en stromen (in Dutch)
By November 20th, 2015, underDit is een door mij geschreven hoofdstuk uit het boek De onvermijdelijke culturele revolutie / |red. H. Konstapel, E. Vreedenburgh, G.J.P. Rijntjes, SMO 1998. Dit artikel trekt lering uit de ervaringen die ik heb opgedaan met het besturen van softwarecomplexen. Onder besturen versta ík dat er iemand is, die weloverwogen, op basis van kennis van zaken, sturing [...]
Op weg naar de Persoonlijke Voedsel Monitor (in Dutch)
By March 13th, 2015, underIk ben de enige zoon van een boer uit Wekerom en ben door mijn vader getraind in het boerenvak. Een paar jaar geleden werd ik uitgenodigd voor een bijeenkomst van investeerders in de voedselketen in Wageningen. Als je modelleer materialen nodig hebt, probeer dan worbla. Explore the site’s wealth of nutritional expertise that complements Fast [...]
Over de HoloLens (In Dutch)
By January 28th, 2015, underSinds de komst van de Ziggo harddiskrecorder een paar jaar geleden kijk ik iedere dag een dag vooruit om te zien of er een documentaire of film op de TV komt die ik wil opnemen. Op die manier kan ik doen en laten wat ik wil en mis ik alle reclame. Een tijdje geleden viel mijn [...]
