Leah McLaren in The Guardian: This is what I find so amazing. That my father – like most other professionals of his generation and generations before him – was able to earn a salary and support our family with little more than a phone and a stack of papers. Just thinking of his desk, the […]

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Mark Gurman, nu bij Bloomberg, is de man die je moet kennen voor de beste lekken uit Cupertino. Niet echt veel wereldschokkends dat eraan komt, maar dit vind ik zelf wel echt extreem vet: The high-end handsets will have significantly upgraded video recording capabilities, getting them closer to professional video cameras. Apple has developed a feature that allow users to […]

Dit jaar valt het me zwaarder dan anders: terug in gang geraken na de vakantie. Vorig jaar was er de lange vakantie tussen twee jobs, waarbij de adrenaline van zo’n nieuwe uitdaging serieus wat hielp om flitsend uit de startblokken te schieten. Dit jaar was ik drie weken met verlof: tien dagen de gesloten crèche […]

Interessant relaas van iemand zonder kantoor: The way to look at remote work is that it’s a series of tradeoffs. You enjoy benefits in exchange for disadvantages. The uptake of remote work over the next decade will depend most on the minimization of those disadvantages rather than the maximization of the benefits. Reason being, the […]

Arthur C. Brooks in de Washington Post: People who consume news media “most of the time” are almost three times as inaccurate in their understanding of others’ views as those who consume news “only now and then,” the study found. This is almost certainly a function of partisans’ compulsive consumption of media sources that support […]

Wendell Steavenson in The Guardian: I remember having an argument with my French boyfriend because I suggested marinating the chicken for dinner in yoghurt and cumin. Boyfriend threw up his arms in alarm. “But isn’t the point to taste the chicken?” Furious and foreign, I replied: “No! It’s just the opposite! Cooking is about messing […]