Author Archives: Martien van Steenbergen
Reasons to Train
Primary reasons to train: To get, keep, and grow talent; and To close the skills gap. Read the full story on Reasons to Train Your Staff.
Fundamental Research of Matter -> Fields
Took my daughter Tamar to the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics ‘Rijnhuizen’ for a school excursion. FOM is one of the research institutes of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter. I was welcomed by Amy Shumack (native Australian and excellent Dutch tongue) and I asked her what matter actually is. So we talked about […]
Cheetah boosts business educational publishers
Since Cheetah will have a serious game engine powering the friendliness and educational aspects as well as a peer-to-peer infrastructure, it can fuel the connection between young professionals and their future clients in the field of pregnant diabetics. Cheetah fulfills both an educational and a social purpose. An excellent opportunity for educational publishers to innovate […]
Martijn writes Wolfram’s Curl & Julia
Martijn, my son, reads a couple of pages from Stephen Wolfram’s “A New Kind Of Science (pages 189-191), takes an hour or two and writes a neat little Java program generating a Curl and a Julia. Cool. Program will be available soon so you can try it yourself.
Integral Architecture—The Timeless Way of Building
You’re cordially invited to attend the CHE Salon on Integral Architecture, inspired by Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building and The Nature of Order. May 11, Centrum Venwoude, Lage Vuursche. Free for friends of CHE. Succes en plezier—Martien.
April Wise Fools Day
April Wise Fools Day came to mind late 2005, in a dialog with Engbert Breuker, Chief Emotions Officer at and Founder of Pentascope. Go on and read the long story on April Wise Fools Day.
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Thank you Rem Koolhaas, for coining this wonderful symbol for the emerging single global currency.
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Thank you Rem Koolhaas, for coining this wonderful symbol for the emerging single global currency.
A productive Cheetah day
Another productive Cheetah day. Cheetah 0.0.5 saw the light of day. Platform is ready and software update works fine. Launching Cheetah still takes too long, though. Seems like something needs looked into under the hood. Created first versions of the chaordic Cheetah Principles, Practices and Participants, still open for dialog, embellishment, and completion. Opened the […]