MindThe Beginner

Once upon a time there was a little songbird. Born in a typical Dutch forest at the edge of some fields. His first months of life were spent in spring and an abundance of food was all he knew. Then one day he heard the older birds talk about oncoming winter. “What is winter?” he [...]

Hi all, Last weekend I finally started out on my “passive income” dream as hinted at in my previous post. I built my very first niche site. In Dutch, and on a search term that gets just under 1k local monthly searches with a CPC above $1. A related search term gets 6k locals a [...]

Recently I started looking at my blog again, after not being very involved over the past months. Things certainly have changed, in my life and on the internet. The first thing I noticed is that Twitter definitely isn’t what it used to be. Not only because Adobe Air stopped supporting linux, but also because there [...]

More Twitter followers gives you more social status, a lot of Facebook friends will make you seem popular. If you’re “friends” with enough people you’re bound to become a success. You just need a few more… Impossibilities of networks It’s quite impossible for humans to have active social connections with more than one hundred (yes, [...]

Have you ever thought about meditation? There are many different ideas out there on what it is exactly and what it’s good for. I wouldn’t be a human being if I didn’t have an opinion on the topic myself. This blogpost gives you one of many views, but a view from someone with personal experience. [...]

Did you ever ask yourself what the key to mastery is? Why do some people become insanely good at something while others never seem to get ahead? Why do some people learn faster? Is it a talent? Are they just gifted? I don’t believe so. I believe that all there is to it is something [...]

Have you ever wondered why some items you own are just “better” than other items? I’m sure you have, it’s all about good design. What makes a design good? Good design: is innovative makes a product useful is aesthetic helps us to understand a product is unobtrusive is honest is durable is consequent to the [...]

…But they are supposed to, that’s their job. Lately I’ve been thinking (and reading) a lot about martial arts and the interactions and relations that are a part of that. Today during Aikido training it struck me as I was trying a technique. It went wrong – obviously – or at least, the situation didn’t [...]

Have you ever tried to meditate? Did you ever hear people try to explain what it is? You’ve probably heard things like “Don’t think”, “Clear your mind” and “Shutting up your inner dialogue”. The problem is that those are just concepts. Did you ever try having no thoughts? Not only does it have the same [...]

While rereading one of my favorite books there was a line in there that I can’t get out of my mind: Thinking about yourself gets in the way of what you are trying to do – J.J. Gibbs I think it actually sums up all the issues I’m having. Issues with education, issues with blogging, [...]