AI Strategy 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 in Practice 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?
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 in Practice 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.
Europe 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
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.
AI Governance 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.
Europe 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.
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 Strategy 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?
Europe Reading Breakneck by Dan Wang Few books capture our accelerating era like Dan Wang’s Breakneck: global, personal, and clear-eyed about what drives modern change.
Europe From Free to Paid: Choosing the Right AI Model (with a European Lens) Building on Ethan Mollick’s excellent ‘Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now’, this article explores how to choose between the leading AI systems. And what a European perspective adds when moving from free to paid use.
Rediscovering Google Cloud Search Google Cloud Search offers a quiet form of productivity: not by summarising, but by helping you find exactly what you’ve created across your own Google Workspace. A reminder that clarity comes before interpretation.
The Silent Upgrade: What Really Changed When Our Bank Replaced Our Cards Our bank quietly replaced our cards. Everything worked, yet behind that smooth process lies a major shift in how payments and digital identity work.
AI in Practice When Research Turns Into Action: Understanding Deep Research vs. Agent Mode in ChatGPT Both modes inside ChatGPT seem to “think”, yet one begins to “do”. Exploring the quiet shift from analysis to operation in everyday AI tools.
AI in Practice When Bots Become Readers: Publishing in the Age of AI Crawlers Listening to Matthew Prince on Azim Azhar’s podcast made me reflect on who actually reads my blog. People (like you), machines, or both.
AI in Practice When AI Makes the Calendar Click A hotel booking, a single prompt, and a small glimpse of how AI quietly starts to understand our everyday tools.
The Hidden History Behind an Email Signature in Apple Mail After thirty years of wrangling with e-mail quirks, this is the simple method that finally made Apple Mail behave and it still makes me smile.
Tracing and Telling: From GPX Tracks to KML Stories GPX shows where you went. KML explains what it means. With Komoot and AI, maps become not just navigation tools but narratives.
AI Strategy From Hype to Workflows: Where AI’s Real Shift is Happening We expected AI to change everything overnight. Instead, progress is hidden in pilots and processes. The sinkhole is forming beneath us.
Future of Work AI’s Impact on Work, People, and Labour Law AI drives growth and efficiency, but also reshapes rights, rules, and daily work. A look at the double effect of AI on organisations and labour law.
Decentralised Identity: Prove What You Must, Reveal No More Than You Need To access content or services, we often give away more than we should. Decentralised identity lets us prove facts without exposing our digital selves.
AI Strategy Oracle’s Surprise Role in the AI Economy Oracle’s return to AI relevance shows how capital is flowing upstream. From apps to infrastructure. Training fits their strengths, inference remains a question.
AI Strategy From Sand to Software: A Whistle-Stop Tour of the AI Value Chain AI may look like pure software, but it rests on a fragile chain of quartz, optics, fabs, and GPUs. This post traces the journey, stop by stop.
