

Back from your summer holiday — and already in need of a holiday?
Yes. Three weeks away, and still. You don’t say it out loud, because it sounds a little ungrateful, so you file it under post-holiday blues. It will pass. It will. And that is precisely the problem. The Dutch researcher Jessica de Bloom wrote her doctoral thesis on what a holiday actually does to us. Her finding is sobering. Health and well-being demonstrably improve while you are away, but fall back remarkably quickly once you return. A recent meta-analysis puts it painfully
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Summer reading 2026: everyone's talking about the machine — these twelve books are about us
Everyone is shouting about the machine. Sam Altman promises heaven, the doom-mongers hell, and on LinkedIn you trip over oracles who know exactly what your job will look like in five years. As the Dutch columnist Sander Schimmelpenninck recently put it in de Volkskrant, it is maddening how easily the likes of Musk throw sand in the public's eyes. The loudest voice usually has the most to sell. Turn that noise off, and the genuinely interesting question remains. Not: what will
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