Just bumped into these really nice Take Away Shows. Passionately made by Vincent Moon with a stunning sound quality, a series with really intimate recordings of concerts by great bands. Some hand-picked highlights:

Wilco

I was watching some TED Talks in the train, again looking for some fresh insights and, because I’m way behind (56 talks…) in watching them so I random picked one in iTunes: TEDTalks : Bertrand Piccard’s solar-powered adventure – Bertrand Piccard (2009). What an incredible story. A balloon as a metaphor for life. Made me

Kreeg dit geweldig inspirerende verhaal van Jorn.

Prof. Dr. Paul de Chauvigny de Blot SJ Lic. Ph. werd geboren

Zo goed dit. Delen is zo leuk en al helemaal dingen zoals deze mail van Pieter Spinder:

Lieve mensen,

Ik kwam maandag een mevrouw tegen van www.saamendeelen.nl en zij gaf mij een visitekaartje, waarop ze de volgende tekst had afgedrukt die ik graag aan jullie mail:

Er was eens een verhaal. Een oud verhaal,

24 uur met… Maarten van der Weijden (Dutch only)
This is a great story on how nothing is what it seems. Maarten won a gold medal on at the last Olympic Games in China, after overcoming cancer. In this great show by Wilfried de Jong, one of the best interviewers on Dutch tv, Maarten

Idealize #25 met Ellemijn Veldhuijzen van Zanten (Dutch only)
Ellemijn is a Dutch actress, mother and columnist. Although the entire conversation is interesting, fast forward to 21:10. From here, the conversation is about her five children. Only two of them still live and although this sounds as a dramatic story, which it obviously is,

I travel by trains a lot, since I do most of my work not really near where I live. And I use that time for a lot of things. Trains are great. They enable you to go wherever you want to go, and while you are doing that, do something else at the same time.