How are you wasting your time?

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Tom

I like Umberto Eco, not (only) because he’s a great writer, historian, philosopher or critic, but because he’s all of that at the same time.  He finds a way to perform hugely time-consuming tasks and have a great life at the same time and still finds time to fulfil his duties at the university.

How does he do [...]

Who was reading anyway?

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Tom

It’s been almost a year since my last blogpost.  Funny how these things go, seems like at one moment in your life, there’s always something that comes up preventing you to do what you should.  It’s really no excuse to stop doing what you love to do, and I love this, I really do, to [...]

The perfect match

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Tom

I don’t know whether it’s the current economic situation or just coincidental interest, but I recently started reading the classifieds.  Not that my current employer has to worry, but with unemployment figures still rising, it’s interesting to see what happens with the job openings that do get out.  What do companies demand from future employees?

What a company especially [...]

It rarely pays off

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Tom

Bernie Madoff got sentenced today to 150 years in jail for probably on of the biggest fraud schemes in financial history.  After years of scamming investors, it was a financial crisis that brought it all to the surface.  It’s also the same week where a lot of kids get their final report card.  Where a few among them face [...]

Your private oasis

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Tom

Freelancers, small companies, start-ups,…  It’s not unusual they work over 80 hours week.  Their livelihood depends on their success, they don’t have anything else to count on.  If they don’t do it, no-one else will.  So they work, every minute of the day, 7 days a week, just to be sure they’ll be fine.

You have [...]

Is it worth the effort?

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Tom

Somehow we believe that we can make bad things better.  We can stimulate a lazy employee to be more productive, we can create a marketingcampaign for a retailer with a bad reputation, we can even try to learn Chinese for that matter.

But is it worth it?  All the time spent on a person or a [...]