Writings by Hans de Zwart
Sometimes you need to quickly immerse yourself in a new field. You might want to gain expertise or quickly gauge what the current issues are around a particular topic. One way of doing this is by creating a dedicated Twitter account to follow a topic. Below some instructions on how you could do this. Setting … Continue reading How to Use Twitter to Become an Expert on Any Topic
Over the last few weeks I collaborated with a few people to write an innovation manifesto for an IT function. I think the following statements are a pretty good starting point to becoming more innovative: We prefer outside-in over inside-out You can start by looking what issues we have internally and then find solutions for … Continue reading An Innovation Manifesto
Webinars are usually dreadful affairs. There is wise advice from Donald Taylor and there is the webinar manifesto (slightly too commercial: "Never design, deliver or sell lousy webinars again") that will help you do a better job. I would like to add a completely different way to run a webinar. I call it the Socratic … Continue reading How To Chair a Socratic Webinar
I've been reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book Antifragile, Things That Gain from Disorder. I've portioned the book into 30 daily chunks of 14 pages each and post a Tweet about those 14 pages every day. The following passage is one of my favourites in the book so far. It very much aligns with my thinking … Continue reading Only the Autodidacts Are Free – Why I Have a Personal Library
Last week I spent three days at the British Museum in London exploring their History of the World in 100 Objects collection. I had bought the book earlier and showed up on a Monday morning with the intention of going to see each object in the book (preferably in order) and reading the chapter about … Continue reading A History of the World in 100 Objects