These posts sit at the intersection of three things I keep returning to: leadership, technology, and the open road. Over a career that took me from boardrooms to development environments — across oil & gas, banking, insurance, and beyond — I have come to believe that the same qualities that make a great director make a great cyclist: judgment, endurance, and knowing when to push.
The name? I moved from Australia to India, married an Indian girl, and never quite left — in spirit at least. As a Dutch national with an OCI card and a life rooted between continents, “Our Man in India” was less a title I chose and more one that chose me.
Now that I have more time to reflect than to act, these are the things still worth writing about.
Today, July 13, marks exactly one month since I cycled in Srebrenica — a small village in the southeast of Bosnia & Herzegovina, near the Drina River that forms the border with Serbia. It’s also exactly 30 years since the Dutch UN battalion, Dutchbat, was forced by Serb forces to hand over the …
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After two years cycling in the Dolomites, I missed last years’ tour in the Pyrenees due to a bad fall in Goa. That had caused my family a lot of stress and me a lot of frustration of not being allowed to cycle by my doctor. The reason of my fall became never clear. I am still alive due to quick …
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Let me start with a bold statement: knowing HTML and CSS helps write much better JavaScript! Why you may ask. Well, you need to grasp the whole medium to appreciate the best approach. The what, where, how, issues etc. Vanilla JavaScript may appear daunting but it is not. Instead it is faster, more …
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