It has now been about 3 months since I started work as a strategy consultant in the U.S. Compared to having the same job in Europe many things are the same, many things are different – looking back at the first 12 weeks, here’s the ‘typical’ week. Continue reading
Author Archives: Willem Koenders
New Year’s Eve, the Sugar Bowl, and the Unclaimed Baggage Center – part 3/3
New Year’s Eve
We didn’t do very much on the morning of December 31st. We slept in and wandered around some more around Bourbon St. We decided to get tickets to the Sugar Bowl that would take place the day after. We found a nice pub to eat dinner while we watched Clemson beat Oklahoma. Continue reading
Exploring my favorite city in the US: New Orleans – part 2/3
Exploring New Orleans
We checked into our hotel, the Blake Hotel, and quick made our way into the city center and the French Quarter. The French Quarter is the oldest neighborhood of New Orleans, with a number of historic buildings dating back to 18th century when the Spaniards rules the city. Continue reading
Christmas Road Trip to New Orleans – Part 1/3
Sarah and I decided on a whim to spend New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, at the Gulf of Mexico. Milestones along the way would be to visit the biggest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, admire the “lucky” USS Alabama in Mobile, and watch fireworks and College Football in New Orleans. Writing this blog post I really can’t believe how much we did in only a few days!
A new, bigger league can save Dutch, Belgian, and Scandinavian title aspirations
In past years, a few football clubs have dominated the European Champions League. Whenever the semifinal stage is reached, only clubs from the big leagues of Germany, England, Spain, and Italy are left. Not too long ago, this was not so straightforward. Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence: Dawn of a New Age of Central Planning?
For centuries have academics and politicians debated the merits and demerits of central planning. Central planning (or economic planning, or planned economy) is a mechanism that directly allocate resources. A central authority decides how and where stuff is produced and consumed. It contrasts with its ideological counterpart, the market mechanism, in which resources are allocated indirectly by buyers and sellers who make decisions within regulated marketplaces. Continue reading
Behind the Scenes at the National Cathedral
Today, I would be a tourist in my own backyard as I would take the ‘Behind the Scenes Tour’ at the National Cathedral of Washington, D.C. It is the sixth largest cathedral in the world and one of D.C.’s architectural highlights. What sets it apart from all other cathedrals is that it is so young. Its construction was finished only in 1990, a mere 25 years ago.
The National Cathedral of Washington, D.C.
