{"id":1806,"date":"2004-10-08T19:36:19","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T02:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2009-06-06T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T17:23:27","slug":"departing-for-antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2004\/10\/08\/departing-for-antwerp\/","title":{"rendered":"Departing for Antwerp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This trip was a good reading trip for me; between flights and the late nights and needing to relax before trying to sleep, I managed to finish Salon<\/a>, by Jaida N’Ha Sandra and Jon Spayde, a book about the history and modern creation of salons, and The Art of the Start<\/a>, by Guy Kawasaki, which is his hints on creating a startup. I bought a copy of Stiff<\/a>, by Mary Roach, which is about what happens to cadavers. I highly recommend all three books.<\/p>\n

The team I worked with was really cool – we had lots of fun and worked really, really hard – here’s an example of the kind of diversions we invented:<\/p>\n

\"cokecantower\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yours truly with the coke can building<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I worked all week (very hard I might add:-). I left work at 5:30P, took a cab back to the Amsterdam Marriott where I met Aviva and we took a cab to Centraal Station. We took a train to Antwerp, first class – they offered a small meal – it took about 2 hours to get there. The hotel was very nice, the Radisson SAS Park Lane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This trip was a good reading trip for me; between flights and the late nights and needing to relax before trying to sleep, I managed to finish Salon, by Jaida N’Ha Sandra and Jon Spayde, a book about the history and modern creation of salons, and The Art of the Start, by Guy Kawasaki, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,565,564,10,143,567],"tags":[563],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amsterdam","category-antwerp","category-belgium","category-the-netherlands","category-travel-foreign","category-vacations","tag-antwerp-brugge-2004"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t