Hayo Bethlehem
Hayo Bethlehem
Hayo Bethlehem
Born and raised in the Green Heart of Holland, I now call the picturesque town of Wassenaar home, where I live with my family. Just a scenic bike ride from The Hague, I work as a Senior Advisor at the Ministry of General Affairs, helping shape the digital landscape of government operations.
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By: Clare Wood, Karen Littleton, Kieron Sheehy | Rating: 2/5Reread this old study book from the wife to see if there was anything interesting in it. But it's kind of dated, and these books focus a little bit too much on who researched...
By: Joel Kotkin | Rating: 1/5What an absolutely godawful book. Kotkin has obviously no interest or any knowledge of the European feudal societies of medieval times. He uses this lack of knowledge to shoehorn his theory into. It just...
By: Iain M. Banks | Rating: 5/5This series was recommend to me, because I was complaining about all Science Fiction nowadays seemed distinctly distopian. Well, this actually includes an utopian society. The book has a lot of humor and...
By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna | Rating: 5/5The authors make a very clear argument against all merit of the current Media extrusion machines being peddled by Silicon Valley. The book lays it all out in all the details. Unfortunately...
An old picture I liked. I took it during the Covid pandemic as a joke. It's my take in what an EDC kit would look like from then on. With a bottle of 'medicinal' wodka, of course.
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky | Rating: 3/5A little frustrating to read, as seems to be the standard for this series. I liked the lost colony idea, but the presentation is very fragmented. I guess that's on purpose, but it doesn't work for me....
Alexander's high tech laboratory still needed something on the roof. This James Webb Telescope seems to do the job just fine.
By: Diederik Baazil | Rating: 1/5The book describes the political headwinds the Dutch company ASML found itself in, after people found out what the strategic importance of their products was. It is however a very light book. It glances...
By: Bob de Graaff | Rating: 4/5Yes, the Netherlands had its own CIA. Spies and everything. But with about 1% of the necessary budget, and you get a typically Dutch version of it. Always underfunded, more lucky than competent, the IDB was...
On this day eight years ago, apparently I was enjoying a holiday in Ireland. This looks like somewhere in the Dingle harbour area.
You know those days? This is one of those. A full day prompt training. Probably nothing about sql queries or basic logic.
My airsoft team decided to get a logo patch.
By: Cory Doctorow | Rating: 5/5Cory has the amazing ability to say things in a way they completely resonate. His view on the current hype cycle and how it links to the thinking patterns of Big tech managers make a lot of sense. If only...
By: Louis A. DiMarco | Rating: 2/5Two chapters are relevant, but incredibly thin on theory. The rest is a fairly well written overview of a number of urban operations scenarios, clearly chosen to stress the authors' point, whatever it...
By: Martijn Kitzen, Tim Sweijs | Rating: 1/5Sadly disappointing. Authors spend a lot of time vaguely skimming over the changing patterns of war and then vaguely make a point of that we don't know what the next war is going to be. Sad....