Happy Monday!
Quick read
Jos de Blok on motivating employees
Jos de Blok received the Albert Medal in 2014 for his accomplishments as the founder of Buurtzorg, a transformational Dutch healthcare technology company.
Other recipients of the Albert Medal include Tim Berners-Lee—the brain behind the world wide web, Francis Crick who first deciphered the helical structure of DNA, and Stephen Hawking.
Below is an excerpt from an interview with Jos, looking to get to the bottom of how he has been able to run such a successful organization with 10,000+ employees.
Interviewer: “How do you motivate your employees?”
Jos de Blok: “I don’t, it seems patronizing.”
He later went on to say, “Management is bullsh*t, just let people do their job.”
Buurtzorg doesn’t have any managers. They divvy up employees into small teams and allow them to self-regulate.
Can’t make this stuff up.
Visual
Azenhas do Mar, Portugal—one day
Fact
Falling coconuts kill ~15x more people annually than sharks do .
This day in history
116 years ago today, on April 18th 1906, at 5:13 a.m., an earthquake—estimated at ~8.0 on the Richter scale—struck San Francisco, California, killing ~3,000 people as it toppled numerous buildings. The quake was caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment about 275 miles long, and shock waves could be felt from southern Oregon down to Los Angeles.
Tune
Quote
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” // Charles Darwin
Something to ponder
“Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe.” // Bertrand Russell
Honorable Mentions
Personal update
Trying to avoid diversion from the truth (and coconuts).
Until next week,