Publications
Fourteen printed titles — seven works, each in a Dutch and an English edition — grouped into the Statecraft and Limbic Literacy series and standalone works. Hardcover, published by House of Viridian. Each book informs a pillar of the practice — and new work, from a cookbook to a climate book, is forthcoming.
Interim Management for the Public Sector
Statecraft series
The standard work on interim management in the public sector. Navigating rather than planning — from the strategic triangle to the first hundred days, from intervention to consolidation.
The Netherlands 2040 — A Pattern Language
Statecraft series
A pattern language for the state. Institutional patterns for a country still worth living in by 2040 — how governance succeeds and how it fails.
Decline and Revival
Statecraft series
Is the Netherlands repeating the decline that followed its Golden Age? From trading supremacy to modern complacency — and the path back to relevance.
The Limbic Economy
Limbic Literacy series
How your brain became a business model. A structural analysis of how the attention economy exploits the human limbic system — and how to defend against it.
All of Us Displaced
iRecord
On identity, displacement, and the search for belonging. How globalisation, migration, and digitalisation uproot us — and how we find connection again.
When a Typewriter Flew Through the Air
Personal
A memoir. A life told through the books that shaped it — written for his daughter Priya. From Arendsoog to Kundera, from loss to integration.
Twenty-Four Rules for a Good Life
Personal
Twenty-four rules for a good life — a compact pattern language for living well, drawn from a lifetime of reading, work, and reflection.
A cook's atlas of the dishes that will not work in a domestic oven
A cookbook for high heat. The food a home oven can never quite reach — what happens above 250°C, and how to cook it. Full colour, a page a dish.
Thinking in the Right Units
A climate book. The debate flattens a five-dimensional problem — from carbon-cycle physics to politics — onto a single believer-versus-denier axis. This book pulls the questions apart and argues for reasoning in the right units.
What the Netherlands adds up to. A short reckoning in the Statecraft series.
A Civil Servant's Counter-History, 1980–2025
Four decades inside the machine of the Dutch public sector, told against the official version — a civil servant's counter-history of how the state actually worked from 1980 to 2025.