“From my cold, dead hands…” It’s something that came to mind as I was thinking about writing this post. The part that doesn’t make sense about the Internet, today and perhaps since ever, is that American concept of “Freedom,” of independence and lack of governance. In my post on piracy, my point was not complete. [...]
I’m always fascinated by business models, i.e. at how entrepreneurs and companies put together services in order to make money from them. I’d call it the source code of business if I hadn’t seen the other source code in Luxembourg —legal and accounting—but arguably that’s more like binary code, i.e. 99% unintelligible. Sarah Lacy writes [...]
How and why financial and legal services are stuck in the old world.
I feel like I’ve already complained enough about the state of mobile telephone on this blog, particularly where it relates to roaming across countries, which just plain sucks. It’s not just mobile telephony, of course, it’s also public transport, where you have to get special discount cards per country, while we live in a so-called [...]
This is an angry post, so ignore if you can’t handle it. Nothing is as frustrating to as staring at a blank wall. And to continue to use that analogy, nothing is as frustrating as staring into the face of someone who radiates “there’s nothing I can do” or “there’s nothing I will do” to [...]
I think I must be a geek because I like creating order (that doesn’t automatically mean that I’m a very orderly person, rather the opposite). One of my first priorities in my new position was to orientate myself in the “order” of things, or rather to have a good view on what the process from [...]
This week a Dutch commission on the banking recession to came to an end. Their conclusion: banks should be more customer-focussed (translated article). Wow… If there’s anything this crisis has shown us is that during times of crises, creativity takes a dive out the window. Because I’m pretty sure that people were talking about more [...]
