A biologist by training, a rationalist by temperament.
I have spent six decades paying attention: to evidence, to language, and to the gap between what we are told and what turns out to be true.
Biology gave me the scientific method. Philosophy gave me Sartre, Camus, and the questions that never fully resolve. I am drawn to contrarian positions not for provocation but because received wisdom so often turns out to be wrong, and I would rather verify a number to three decimal places and find the precision moving than settle for a comforting story.
The writing comes out of that. Essays, mostly personal, that begin in something concrete: a red light in Rome, a loaf of sourdough, a face in the shaving mirror, and follow the thought wherever it goes. Alongside them, the Manuals of Life: a practical philosophy for the examined life, tested against decades of reading, building, failing, and starting again. I am not a guru, a coach, or an architect. I am someone who has paid attention, and who writes because writing is how I think.
I founded and run Nova Ars Vivendi, the independent press that publishes these books. Before it, a few other things: CIONET, a global community of digital leaders, and closer to home in Mechelen, DE BORGHT and Home Astrid. The fuller record is on LinkedIn.
