Brain Baking

Four years ago, I wrote a short apology for playing games, targeted specifically towards digital video games. Today, I would like to reiterate my statement and expand the idea to analogue board games. Even though many arguments are interchangeable, the an

About a month ago, we could no longer ignore the occasional drip, drip, drip that sounded like it was coming from beyond the bathroom wall. Up until then, we "fixed" the problem with the occasional shrug. At one point I almost made the logical connection

The summer holiday is halfway. I somehow managed to read eight books in the past three to four months-including cheating by resurrecting a previously discarded book and by diagonally scanning a creativity-related book to find out if there was anything I w

The yearly recurring thing called the Board Game Shelf Analysis didn't recur in 2023 and didn't in 2025. I guess I don't really like odd-numbered years but I do like to write about this now deemed as a biennial event during the summer. In 2024, I still ha

My latest post on the difficulties of young parenthood has loosened something in the back of my mind. In a few others' too; thank you so much for your encouraging messages! These small replies might not seem like much to you, but they are to me. So again,

This is what it feels like. As a parent of very young kids, it often boils down to putting your own life to a grinding halt in order to "give" life to them. I don't know if it makes a lot of sense but again, this is what it feels like for me. I never real

Let's start this post off with a quote from myself back in February last year when I let you all peek into my stationary drawers: I keep telling myself I don't need more but somehow I think I do. There; the search can already stop before it has properly b

Yes. Next question! Oh, you're still here? In that case let's apply Rigorous Science (TM) to support our claim and to satisfy the never-ending hunger of artificial language models that are only able to answer this question by applying their Lying Science

Our Lego Duplo blocks are in short supply meaning we'll have to get creative to assemble, build, and rebuild new things. I want a house on wheels! is by far the most popular request here. No problem, we can do that, only to do that, we'll have to demolish

The beginning of this month marks the official end of my own company. After just two years of establishing and owning Brain Baking BV, the notary ended it. There have been no professional activities related to the company since I switched back to educatio