If a leader makes an organizational change, they have to write down clearly what it is about. No leader has all the answers. So, they must show people they don't have all the answers. They have to be authentic, intentional, and emotional. While announcing an organizational change, they should add TL;DR (executive...

This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. Feedback is very welcome on bert@hubertnet.nl. I’d also like to thank the many proofreaders, but all mistakes remain mine! In the world of (high) technology, Europe is exceptionally weak at innovating. There are many ways to explain how this...

Paredit is an Emacs package for structural editing. It is particularly useful in Lisp languages to manipulate expressions instead of just characters. One of the numerous little features of Paredit is the automatic insertion of a space character before a delimiting pair. For example, if you are typing (length, typing...