Even small things and changes can have impact.

African Wisdom on the left.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. —Steve Jobs

Jurgen Appelo is kicking off a new test cycle -- Come check out the future of agile practices with guides from Gamestorming, Core Protocols, Management 3.0, and more. -- if you might be interested, have a look at http://agilityscales.com/app/ .

Switching sides from job seeking to right placement of great talents and/or candidates goes much faster than expected. Some weeks back headhunters did contact me to fill one of their positions. Now people are approaching me and ask for a job. I like the second option much more.

In the mindset of lifelong learning, always being flexible and open for personal changes, some interesting material to look at. Enjoy an have some fun : 

• Tell Me What You Did Today, And I’ll Tell You Who You Are https://journal.thriveglobal.com/tell-me-what-you-did-today-and-ill-tell-you-who-you-are-952e303ca0ad
• 9 Free Resources That'll Help You Create a Culture of Learning https://learning.linkedin.com/blog/learning-thought-leadership/9-free-resources-that-ll-help-you-create-a-culture-of-learning
• Lifelong learning helps people, governments and business. Why don’t we do more of it?   https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/lifelong-learning-helps-people-governments-and-business-why-dont-we-do-more-of-it-27144daa8c43
• The 5 personality traits successful people share https://www.theladders.com/p/23524/personality-traits-successful
• One Behavior Separates The Successful From The Average https://journal.thriveglobal.com/one-behavior-separates-the-successful-from-the-average-ef1d9fe2b3f2

Some findings with respect to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots:

• How long before a robot takes your job? Here’s when AI experts think it will happen  https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/how-long-before-a-robot-takes-your-job-heres-when-ai-experts-think-it-will-happen-3a0f97eab4cb
• These robots are teaching themselves to walk, run and jump https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/these-robots-are-teaching-themselves-to-walk-run-and-jump-f7a3a14b63a0
• Machines might actually be better than humans at creativity. So … what’s left for us to do?    http://ideas.ted.com/machines-might-actually-be-better-than-humans-at-creativity-so-whats-left-for-us-to-do/
• This is what will keep us human in the age of AI                                     https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/this-is-what-will-keep-us-human-in-the-age-of-ai-55f62738974f
• How computers learn to recognize objects instantly https://www.ted.com/talks/joseph_redmon_how_a_computer_learns_to_recognize_objects_instantly/transcript?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2017-08-04
• Talks that prove you already live in the future https://www.ted.com/playlists/257/talks_that_prove_you_already_l?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=playlist__2017-08-04playlist_button

And finally Maslow's 60+ years old Hierarchy of Needs (https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html) has already an equivalent - The AI Hierarchy of Needs (https://hackernoon.com/the-ai-hierarchy-of-needs-18f111fcc007). Not a surprise I would say.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Boris Pasternak, Russian - Novelist February 10, 1890 - May 30, 1960