Cover of De logica van het leven in de logistiek, by Gertjan Antonisse
De logica van werk:

The Logic of Life in Logistics

Book 1 · Pause

Does the picture we hold of our work match the work itself?

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What this book is

Not a book about logistics. About seeing.

In countless organisations the day begins the same way. People gather in front of a board full of figures, someone reads them out, heads nod, and then the work begins. In that routine sits a silence no one names: the system is no longer breathing.

Many organisations get stuck the moment they believe they have everything under control. Not for a lack of processes, structures or data, but because observing has given way to measuring, steering and intervening. What then looks like resistance or inefficiency is often simply the system signalling that something no longer fits. The only question is whether anyone is still listening.

Logistics here is not the subject, but the place where something universal becomes most visible. This is a book about learning to see: noticing tension before it becomes breakdown, recognising patterns a dashboard does not show, and sensing why more control so rarely brings more calm. This first part offers no solutions. It changes how you look. And once you see differently, you see it everywhere. The book is written in Dutch.

The core question

Does the picture we hold of our work match the work itself?

Not an operational question. A fundamental one.

The trilogy

Three books, one movement.

De logica van werk:

Three books under one name. The spiral marks the logic of work as it keeps unfolding: from pause, to emergency stop, to reset.

  1. Book 1 · PauseOut now

    Stopping the automatic momentum. Seeing what is happening before steering it.

  2. Book 2 · Emergency StopIn progress

    Hitting the emergency stop before the chaos becomes permanent. No longer automating what is not understood.

  3. Book 3 · ResetPlanned

    Rethinking Lean from the start. Making everything visible, instead of everything faster.

About the author
Portrait of Gertjan Antonisse

Gertjan Antonisse

Gertjan Antonisse has over 35 years of experience in logistics, technology, and process improvement. He started on the shop floor and later worked on the automation of logistics operations, helping organizations build systems that support how people actually work, rather than forcing people to adapt to the system.

That combination of hands-on experience, systems thinking, and technological insight shapes his core belief: real improvement doesn’t start with more control, but with better observation. Not just looking at numbers, but at rhythm, patterns, and what happens between people in everyday work.

In The Logic of Life in Logistics, Gertjan shows how organizations get stuck when they optimize on paper, and how progress becomes possible when they learn to listen to the system itself. His work invites a different conversation about logistics, leadership, and the relationship between people, processes, and technology.

He now turns that same gaze to AI: not as a replacement for human insight, but with the conviction that runs through this book, that you can only hand over a system once you truly understand what is inside it.

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Begin with the pause.

Book 1 is out. It asks for no agreement, only attention: to stop for a moment, and see whether the picture still holds.

Read Book 1