Pallieter Koopmans

As you might already know, every year near my birthday I post the proclamation for myself for the coming year. When I was an old teenager I was spending serious time connecting to my mystic roots through meditation. When I was 18 I predicted my 31ste year would be my year of Money – I was excited about that my whole life – but got very nervous every month it was getting closer. Little did I know how right I was so many years ago. Here is how: at 24 I slowly made the transition to actually be an adult. Now in the last year (mantra: introspection) I believe I have finally gained the basic knowledge (about myself) I expected to gain in my life.

For this year my mantra is: consolidation (between yin & yang). I have already realized that most mantra’s were spot on, but in retrospect in such an incredibly different way than expected. So, I have spent significant effort over the last weeks to realize the way I could go about interpreting my own words of wisdom. They didn’t make sense to me until I read an article in a management magazine this Sunday afternoon in my mothers garden which had a line in it that made me realize what I have unconsciously already set out to do: “weet wat je wil en creeer een kans” (which translates as: “know what you want and create an opportunity to do it”). I will rewrite it in my own words (from the last 2 years) as: understand my passion and create an environment in which I can live it – and I hope in 12 months or so to fully understand how that relates to consolidation – because literally the first day after my birthday, it felt much more like the year of separation

To gain some perspective/inspiration hese will guide me:

Life Vision:

I exist, as all else exist, because all else exists. I am unbound and infinite.

Life Mission:

Bringing about balanced success that leads to and supports growth in the
four success areas – mental, spiritual, physical and financial – through
creating choices and understanding their impact and consequences (on and
for myself and those around me).

Life Motto:

To live, to love, to learn and to leave a legacy.

While I personally really like the concept – and it is more usefull if all my communicationpartners are using it (remember the faith of Google Wave) – it has, as can be expected from Google, a highly technical cool-factor with an awesome potential; but I do feel there is a human factor called discipline that simply can not be enforced. Compare my Google Contacts, I have about 20% of my 5000+ contacts properly sorted in the broad categories: friends, family, business, employees, strangers (people I did not personally meet) and some interest groups like: libertarian, important (people to consider/follow), etc. And in this way Google Circles will fail to fully support me simply because I will not have the commitment to work the system to its technical perfection.

I guess I’m still waiting for artificial intelligence…

Besides lacking the first-movers advantage (switching social network providers is still a very big hurdle), there will be the problem of handling the social feedback from those that are not in my circles where they expected to be in – and thus miss things that their desired peers will receive. (Note: facebook “solved” this by giving us just 2 choices: public or private.)

Together with my Vision for Education and my life experience I hope to some day start working on my PhD dissertation & defense. Several years ago I have formulated my goal for this possible area of research. Here the extract:

Aspects of Future Didactical Systems in Higher Vocational Education – a Roadmap for Change

With the increase in the amount of information people have to deal
with every day to be able to operate successfully in this world; we can
not teach our children what we know now, we have to teach them to
understand & deal with what we will know tomorrow. This requires a
significant other approach and in the last few decades we have been
experimenting with various educational & didactical systems. In my
quest to get my PhD I will document this evolution from a broad
perspective, distill the trends (based on scientific methods using a
significant amount of data and data sources), predict the future
(using my understanding of the data, my life experience as a student,
as well as an educator and a father) and write a roadmap for how to
best revolutionize both our educational systems and didactical
systems (in a practical and achievable way).

I would love to receive feedback.

Link to my personal wiki page (to keep my internal organization): wiki.