where Seth Meyers studied comedy in the Netherlands

 

Seth Meyers [born 1973] studied comedy here. His Amsterdam picks here.

Stealing Van Gogh

 

Organized crime steals culturally significant art to use as "tokens" to negotiate lighter prison sentences.

Gedogen

Technically illegal, but officially tolerant.
- On Amsterdam

incrementalism

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh

Amsterdam

90 islands, 500 bridges.

Image source here.

Kaizen

An Amsterdam diamond polisher looks at the diamond through a lupe before polishing.

Kaizen is a Japanese word meaning, roughly, continuous, gradual improvement as in the polishing of a diamond.