Author Archives: Guus

Starship Enterprise

Starship Enterprise I was watching, kind of accidentally, an episode of the documentary Ancient Aliens. And just zapping a bit around I also ended up with one of the newer Star Trek movies. And of course that made me think about humanity, about being human. And what being human means. And also of course I was and am wondering when humans or humanity are really going to look for the stars as depicted in Star Trek and many other science fiction movies and books. As I guess in the end everybody will agree that humans somehow, some time, will leave earth and go explore the universe. And actually it is a bit strange to me that we don’t put more effort into that. As it seems that after we went to the moon in the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, nothing really happened anymore, nothing really beyond ‘the ordinary’, beyond more of the same.

And maybe I am wrong. Maybe there are people doing things beyond the ordinary, beyond improving existing stuff. But I don’t think so.

And yes, I think I wrote about this before. That humanity seems to have stopped really innovating, have stopped doing really exciting things, things really ‘out of the box’.

So yes where are the leaders giving us new ‘impossible’ goals, like John F. Kennedy and other politicians of the time did? And why aren’t we looking for them, choosing them?

Or do we really want just to play games, have the latest model TV or iPhone or car?

Where are the dreams? Where are the real human dreams, where are the real human dreamers?

Love

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Saw the end of a movie and somehow in the end it’s all about love. And the more I think about it, love is the strangest thing in the world, as it seems to make the most impossible relationships between humans possible, somehow seems to connect everything. Even The Matrix, one of my most favorite movies, I think in the end is about love, something ‘the machines’ don’t even understand.

And who would understand this type of thing called love, even though I believe somehow it’s also a choice, a choice to love someone, no matter what. For quite a while I believed Love is a verb, but still there seems to be more also to it.

So let’s be grateful there is something called like love, dealing with all our failures, mistakes, flaws and whatever we perceive as negative. Let’s celebrate!

Quiet

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Things feel a bit quiet right now, but I hope it is the quiet before the storm. Nothing much to say today also and as usual it’s quite late, even though I wrote my Dutch post much earlier today.

So I think I’ll just call it quits for now.

Thanks for opening this page anyhow.

Hypocrite

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Lately I think quite a lot about how hypocrite I actually am, as I actually run an advertising company and do link building and stuff and yes, am also earning from advertising on the internet and sell links. On the other side I criticize companies, humanity for ‘paying virtually everything’ through advertising.

So yes, I understand it’s not that easy to change the thinking about ‘money’ and ‘earning’, as also I have to live, have to eat and as of the moment I don’t see much other ways than working and indeed, getting some secondary income from advertising and selling links.

And I also still have no idea how my ‘give and receive model‘ would actually work. As people want to distinguish themselves, e.g. through buying different hings, buying a bigger car and a smaller house or the other way around. And it would still be hard to see someone else receive the same amount of money or stuff (or more) and working less than you or me as of course our ‘earning model’ is rooted deeply in society and each of us.

So yes, I realize that there are very good reasons why our society, why our ‘exchange model’ or how you would want to call it, is like it is. And yes, it brought us where we are now, a world that somehow is ‘better’ than it was before.

But I still believe it needs change, indeed something like going back to a very early stage in human development, when there was no ownership of things and no money, just sharing. Or wasn’t it that simple also then?

Planned too much again, but I did it!

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I planned a bit too much today, but I did it again, even though I was distracted by all kinds of little problems with the site of Eigen Horeca Makelaar that has just been upgraded to a system including data entry screens.

And I was thinking a bit about how this all started, how I apparently was able to satisfy the customer in the end, a customer who is not easily satisfied, but who gave me some compliments the last few days which made me feel really good. Or actually I was not really thinking about the start, but of all the effort I did to keep this customer, like trying to satisfy all his needs. And from a business point of view that may not be the wisest thing to do, but just thinking right now, yes, I think I can be very proud that I kept this customer, against all odds, including being far away in The Philippines and never being able to see him and his team.

And it was a difficult road, that felt like I gave too much, as this is a very demanding customer and I often give away too much. And even the last few days were still demanding, as there were more little things that needed to be solved than I expected, even though technically the upgrade of the site was a very large upgrade. And the customer experienced more problems than I expected, but still, right now, yes, I think I can be proud of myself that I pulled this of. And I guess I already gained a lot of respect fixing all kinds of little problems over the last year or so, and with some things the last few days I think I just confirmed that I am worth it, no matter the problems.

So where to go from here? Actually I have no clue, but I hope with this project I confirmed that I can deliver, even though there are still many minor things I would like to be solved, like to be better.

Well, time will tell, and yes, I made a decision to follow the customer, satisfy the customer as best as I can, no matter the cost or the time or whatever it takes. That is and will be my business model from now on, just be the best in custom made web applications. And it the saying is true that you will reap what you sow, then somehow this must come back to me, in the form of positive things. As I did my best, no matter what.