Knowledge Engineering

Structuring Knowledge with Obsidian

Discovering how Obsidian, Markdown and a light taxonomy can reveal the hidden structure of five years of writing and open a path toward knowledge engineering.

Money & Finance

Qivalis, a New Euro Stablecoin

A new euro stablecoin from Europe’s major banks shifts stablecoins from the margins into the financial system and strengthens the euro’s digital foundations.

Quantum computing

When the Future Starts Knocking Quietly

What feels like a tech abstraction today may end up rewriting our notions of trust, identity and privacy sooner than we expect. The quantum future has begun.

Knowledge Engineering

Making Content Ready for Intelligence

Unstructured content already holds the knowledge organisations rely on. The shift is learning how to reveal its structure so intelligent systems can use it.

AI

Voice Mode Without the Screen

Voice mode with Gemini and ChatGPT. On iOS the lock screen, Dynamic Island, and Live Activities decide whether your assistant stays visible.

Etymology

Cybernetics: The Idea Behind Cyber

Before it meant computers, cyber meant steering. This piece follows that idea from its origins to the way it now shapes states, platforms, and our digital lives.

ChatGPT

Group Chats in ChatGPT: Solving a Problem That Isn’t There

ChatGPT’s strength has been a focused space to think, explore, and learn. By pushing into group messaging, it risks disturbing that clarity. When an assistant becomes a social venue, not only does the feature struggle to justify itself. It threatens the very environment that made the tool valuable.

Google

The Workspace Advantage: Google’s Quiet Lead in the AI Shift

The real AI race is not model vs model, but who owns the environment where work lives. Gemini 3 gives Google a quiet but strategic advantage.

Europe

Introducing the EU’s Digital Omnibus Proposal

The Digital Omnibus Proposal signals a shift in Europe’s approach to data and AI governance. Early awareness matters for those building digital tools.

Tools

Excel and the future cockpit of business logic

Excel has always been more than a spreadsheet. For decades it has been the place where business logic quietly lives. Not in software systems designed for control, but in the free space where analysts, planners and managers actually think. What interests me today is how this space is changing as

AI

Finding My Place in Europe’s AI Future

Policy is loud, practice is quiet. Europe’s future will be shaped by those who build working systems. Here is where I choose to look.

Reviews Featured

Review of The Reckoning, in the light of the AI boom

The AI boom’s profits rest on old instincts: to stretch time, hide cost, and believe the ledger before the reality beneath it.

Knowledge Engineering

What llms.txt can do for your website

When bots become interpreters of your brand, context matters. llms.txt helps guide what AI systems understand and repeat about your website.

Europe

Where deeptech really happens

From AI to nuclear ships. A look at the heavy, slow innovation shaping Europe’s future and why it matters more than the tech we usually talk about.

AI

From Silicon to Intelligence: Understanding the Hardware Behind AI

A short video about NPUs and TPUs led to a deeper look at the physical side of AI. From the Neural Engine in your iPhone to the massive processors powering data-centre models.

AI

Flying Blind: Measuring Traffic When Your Readers Are Machines

As readers move into ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews, we lose sight of them. Can Cloudflare and Plausible help us measure what’s missing?

Google

When Rules Learn to Think: Discovering Google Workspace Flows

A small ‘Flows’ button in Gmail opened a new chapter in how we automate our work. What began as simple rules now behaves like intelligent agents. Powered by Gemini, Google’s expanding AI layer for Workspace and beyond.

AI

Compute: A New Measure of the World

Compute once meant calculation. Now it shapes work, art, and power. An invisible current running through the modern world’s every action.

Identity

Signing the Future: How a Digital Incorporation Made eIDAS Real

A first-hand look at how eIDAS and digital signatures replace paper rituals with cryptographic trust.

Future of Work

Reskilling the Mind: Europe’s Next Transition

No one truly knows what lies ahead. We can sense that work is changing, that the ground beneath knowledge and skill is moving, but the direction is still uncertain. This article is an exploration, a way to think aloud about what reskilling could mean for Europe when intelligence, both human and art

Tools

Excel, the Hidden Operating System of Business Reasoning

Excel has long been the silent operating system of business reasoning. AI may be about to extend that logic into natural language.

Sovereignty

The Real Cost of Leaving Microsoft 365

The ICC left Microsoft 365 for OpenDesk, trading convenience for control. A lesson in digital self-awareness and the true cost of sovereignty.

Sovereignty

The Paradox of Sovereignty: Europe’s Search for Freedom in a Connected World

The EU talks about digital sovereignty as independence, yet its strength still depends on shared systems, U.S. clouds, and global code.

Social media

Between Idealism and Reach: Trying Out the Fediverse

Trying the Fediverse through Ghost: not a viral channel, but a quiet protocol that reimagines publishing as conversation instead of distribution.

AI

Elections and AI

Two reports on AI and politics sparked debate in the Netherlands. Beyond the headlines lies a deeper unease: how do we live with technologies that not only reflect language but act within it?