Hi, I’m Maarten.

I write, podcast, teach and coach
- I’m currently writing a book (in Dutch) with Noordboek Uitgeverij provisionally titled We Are Rational. I also publish essays on cognitive psychology (used to have >100.000 monthly views on Medium), op-eds in newspapers (like this one on fake news) and papers in academic journals.
- In my (Dutch) podcast, I interview interesting thinkers (like Damiaan Denys, Jeroen de Ridder and Sander van der Linden) on cool intellectual and societal topics.
- I teach statistics, academic writing and various psychology courses at Radboud University where I also do thesis supervision (although I’d like to do more philosophy 😉).
- I also coach people in information management and writing (would love to have you!), and teach an online course on personal knowledge management that I’m very proud of: Academic Mastery with Roam. Sign up to master the process from “I have read a bunch of papers” to “I now have synthesized the literature and have a set of promising angles of attack on my research problem”. More information here.
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