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Mike "Veezy" van Zandwijk on Tech, Business & Life at Large
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2025

There are 42 posts published in 2025 (this is page 3 of 5).

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Happy Mother’s Day: Love, Loft Beds & the IKEA Effect

A heartfelt Mother’s Day reflection on building loft beds, legacy, and love—featuring IKEA wisdom, cosmic wonder, and the mysterious grace of motherhood.

in 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family, 📔 Journail, 🤯 Mike's Mind | May 11, 2025 | 814 Words | Comment

The First American Pope: Not a Blink, but a Bold Indication

On May 8, 2025, the Vatican elected Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV—the first American pope. A bold signal in a world of blinkers, wedges, and shifting powers.

in 📃 Articles, 🪖 Geopolitics | May 9, 2025 | 1,264 Words | Comment

A Storytelling Manifesto for the Corporate World

Rethink corporate storytelling with insights from TED Talks, TV shows, and The Matrix. Discover why time, structure, and storytelling matter more than slides.

in 🎤 Presenting, 📃 Articles | May 8, 2025 | 700 Words | Comment

The Hidden Scales: From Divine Loneliness to Conscious Love

A short journal reflecting on the hidden scales of life—from microscopic worlds to cosmic love, and the deep feelings that arise in between.

in 📔 Journail, 🤯 Mike's Mind | May 7, 2025 | 582 Words | Comment

Walter Russell and the Cost of Being Too Early

Walter Russell’s visions, Tesla’s time capsule, and the blurry zone where science, imagination, and belief collide — explored through the lens of Mike’s Mind.

in 📔 Journail, 🤯 Mike's Mind | May 6, 2025 | 702 Words | Comment

The Ghost in the Blog: Decoding False Memories

Mike revisits his 2007 blog files, decoding old posts with GPT, reflecting on prompt traps, model collapse, and what old games can teach us about digital consciousness.

in 📔 Journail, 📼 Nostalgia, 🤯 Mike's Mind | May 2, 2025 | 1,157 Words | Comment

The Real Batman, Icelandic Horses & New or Forgotten Superpowers

Meet Daniel Kish, the real-life Batman who taught himself echolocation. What he and Icelandic horses reveal about instinct and the superpowers we ignore.

in 📔 Journail, 🤯 Mike's Mind | April 30, 2025 | 700 Words | Comment

Gremlins, Grilled Cheese, and the Fine Line of Trust

A day of small heartbreaks and sweet recoveries: a father reflects on trust, lies, music, and parenting lessons over grilled cheese and Gremlins.

in 📔 Journail, 🤯 Mike's Mind | April 29, 2025 | 469 Words | Comment

Who’s the Dick Now?

Philip K. Dick saw our world as a simulation decades before The Matrix. What if he was right? Reflections on time, reality, and why you are the signal, not the noise.

in 📔 Journail, 🤯 Mike's Mind | April 28, 2025 | 761 Words | Comment

The Headset Beyond the Game of Life: Why Space-Time Is Just the Loading Screen

Space-time isn’t fundamental. According to Donald Hoffman and the math behind quantum reality, we’re in a headset—just pixels on a screen. Here’s what that means.

in 📃 Articles | April 25, 2025 | 960 Words | Comment

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  1. Prompted Streams & the Mandela Effect of Memory
  2. Inference in the Dark: Apollo 13 and the Missing Link in AI
  3. IBM Punch Cards and the Machinery of the Holocaust
  4. My 5 Tech Predictions That Missed the Moment
  5. The Arrival Mind Paradox: AI plus Cybersecurity
  6. The Spy Within Me: A Thriller from the Field
  7. My article in Techzine: Survival of the fittest
  8. My interview in AGConnect: Hackathons are a technical carnaval
  9. My article on hybrid work in ChannelWeb
  10. Captivate Like Spielberg: Consulting as a Sci-Fi Storyteller

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