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What I learned from talking to yet another AI genius every week for six years
I’ve had front-row seats watching AI shake up the life sciences and manufacturing across Europe and the US. While talking with visionary tech heads, they clarified that to understand the chaos, I also needed to speak with academics, entrepreneurs, regulators, funders and – most importantly – the end users. Yes, innovation is all about people – a wildly diverse group of individuals and organisations who must unite to make extraordinary things happen.
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How I roll as a writer in the AI tsunami
I don’t believe that AI is making me irrelevant as a writer. In some ways, it’s helping me become a better one. As a long-lapsed carpenter, I still appreciate what a quality power tool can bring to the worksite. But with GenAI, it’s been more love-hate – like a chainsaw: handy until it turns on you. While I’ll take all the help I can get, I want to keep loving my job.
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Dutch Biking – Survival Guide For Beginners
I was editor and co-writer of a bike book published by the esteemed SNOR and designed by Studio Boot. Specially formulated as a crash course in surviving Dutch bike traffic, it features ‘Top 10 Rules!’, DOs & DON’Ts!’, ‘How to swear back at locals!’ and all the cultural weirdness around these most democratic of iron beasts. Become a neder-cyclist today!
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Quotable quotes from past interviews
I’ve interviewed many people: artists, scientists, musicians, billionaires, chefs, AI pioneers, sexperts, vibration analysts (unrelated to previous profession), entrepreneurs, cosmonauts, and specialists of-all-kinds. Here are some random quotations from interviews that reassured me that I was onto a story…
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AI’s Nobel Prize victory lap: Is Time Magazine next?
AI casually swept two Nobel Prizes this year – not bad for a bunch of zeros… and ones. But is it enough to make Time’s ‘Person of the Year’? Or will the on-the-ball Yuval Noah Harari intervene? Read all about it in this edition of ‘Manufacturing – The News.’
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Safely born during the pandemic: Covid Love
Covid Love is a short comedy by Dutch director and fellow cosmonaut René Nuijens. I contributed some one-liners. If you identify the correct one-liners, you can take me out for dinner! Be a winner!
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Introducing Zoku: a new hotel concept for the global nomad
I worked on the initial branding, website texts, and signage for Zoku Amsterdam, a new hotel concept for the global nomad. It is now also in Paris, Vienna, and Copenhagen.
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RNW Media: Engaging the youth (and the funders)
The iconic Radio Netherlands Worldwide became a media NGO after significant funding cuts. How do you make a corporate website that appeals to both donors and the young people it aims to engage?
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Book of Denim, Volume Two
After googling ‘sex’ everyday for four years, it was time to cleanse the palate. So I immersed myself in a whole new and alien supply chain: textiles.
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The Hague: Attracting young professionals to the city of peace & justice
All over the world, people lose sleep wondering: ‘What’s it like to live in The Hague?’ ‘What’s really behind all that freedom, peace and endless beach?’ ‘Are all Hagenesen really so pleasantly eccentric?’ Here’s your chance to find out!
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Lost Gravity: It’s a rollercoaster out there, people
“Can I get make-up over here? I think I just anti-gravitied my pants!”
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Love Matters (aka: My life in sexwork)
Until recently, they called me Dr Africa Love. Sure, the title was usually spoken with a mocking tone…
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World’s longest fart joke
Welcome to the fourth dimension. Time. Now take a deep breath. And release…
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NEE: Not ready to be the new yes
As you read this, it may just seem like more of my smart-ass malarky. But alas, it’s all freakishly true. Irony dies the second you say NOOOOO!!!!!!!
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Bad Buzz/Lost in the Space Age
I made a concept album with The Anacondas. The starting point is the anger we all share over the fact that the shiny space age we were all promised never arrived. Where are our jetpacks?!? And now Bad Buzz is pissed…
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Music for Imaginary Films
I wrote the liner notes and poster copy for this amazing project: the album ‘Music for Imaginary Films’ by Arling & Cameron.