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: Kees Verhoeven | Rating: 3/5I found a pile of these in a cupboard at work and reqd it over the weekend.. I've met Kees a few times and love his passion for government IT. His book is a compendium of all he was involved in in his...
Still by far the most fun way to practice data minimisation.
By: Thomas M. Nichols | Rating: 5/5This is a re-read (Total reads: 2).Tom Nichols wrote this in 2017, and all he describes only got worse. We're stuck in a spiral of education standards dropping, people embracing ignorance and experts...
By: Iain M. Banks | Rating: 5/5At the start I was a bit sceptical about the whole game theme, but the novel quickly became a very interesting tale of the Culture.
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.