Categorie: me, myself and I
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why disconnect?
En réalité on dirait qu’il y a deux hommes en moi qui se disputent sans cesse: un homme du Nord, féru d’ordre et de discipline, et un homme du Sud couché dans son hamac sous un figuier, tandis que la Méditerranée vient lécher la rive à ses pieds. by Georges Simenon, “Des Traces de Pas”…
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nomads love no man’s land
The last 18 months I haven’t been travelling a lot. At the heart of the pandemic I did only a handful of flights compared to the 100+ per year I used to have. Now I’m back on the road and it feels good. Although I feel particularly at home in Geneva and Brussels, I love…
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a team building recipe
I stopped reading management books some time ago. Sure, I still read summaries, pick up the occasional book, and I am a big fan of the Harvard Business Reviews publications and their archives. Tip : they have an excellent subscription model for only 14 euro per month. Over time, management books have been replaced by…
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navigating the art world
Lately, I’m spending a lot of time with and on art. With art : visiting musea, which is a great break from Corona. This weekend, I have the Tinguely and Kunstmuseum Basel on my calendar. With, as in considering buying art. Unlike what people think, it doesn’t have to be expensive. But also more time…
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it was a good year …
Before you comment on the title of this piece, I agree : it was an unprecedented year and bad in many, many ways. But every coin has its flip side and 2020 was extremely good in some ways too. Apart from realising that my bubble is the right one and a very pleasant want to…
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anxiety – covid19
In these stay-home times, reading is a welcome distraction. But clearly you read differently. Covid19 is never far away. I just finished “How to Think More Effectively. A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity” from The School of Life (no credited author, always anonymous). I want to share the following section with you. Write…
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coming of age & AIDS
Identities become not so much categories to be occupied, owned, protected, or rejected, but spaces to be navigated, revisited, revised and elided on a moment-to-moment basis. – Noreen Giffney Over the Ortmann’s New Year’s family lunch on February 1st – yes, we tend to postpone celebrations – my niece Bettina, who is a librarian in…
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Brach, Paris
It must have been at least ten years ago when a trendwatcher introduced me to Mama Shelter, Paris. It was the very first hotel of what is now a chain, designed by Philippe Starck. It not only offered good rooms, it was also a place for hipsters and other fancy people to mingle and mix.…
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inlevingsvermogen
Thuis praten Filip en ikzelf vaak over empathie. En dat hangt meestal vast aan een concreet geval. Dat ik wel, meestal geen empathie heb voor een bepaalde persoon in een bepaalde situatie. Of omgekeerd, dat hij geen empathie heeft voor iets wat ik meemaak. Als ik hem over de middag wel eens bel en zeg…
JEAN PHILIP DE TENDER 