weekly Go Flip Yourself

Almost everything that is meaningful, beautiful, life-affirming, empowering, transformational, true—it can’t be reached by shortcuts. But what we can do is make the longcuts walkable, put out footbridges and stairs, and a table where the ocean comes into view.

This is a story about three dates: 1994, 2007, and 2022. And then three more dates: 1996, 2009 and 2025.

My wish is not for more founders like Yatú but for more founders to realize that they can approach their own work in a similar way to Yatú — to give themselves freedom to explore their own ideas to the fullest extent, with humor, creativity and ambition.

• the act of handwriting is powerful

• mental model of your thoughts in space

• notebooks as the first sociel media (Netherlands back in 1600s)

if you want to be able to briskly climb stairs when you are 75, you need to be in the top 95th percentile of cardiovascular fitness.

• a willingness to speak the truth = the intent of this discussion is to discover the truth together

• a directional document that you can rely on (not to run in circles)

• self transcendance (latest right before Maslow died) -- it's all about love & relationship