Future of Work What Does an AI Agent Cost Compared to a Human? AI agents are fast, tireless, and scalable – but are they cost-effective? Here’s a crude look at what they really cost, compared to human employees.
Europe Innovation or Digitalisation? When researching AI funding in Europe, I discovered a key distinction: innovation vs. digitalisation. If you're navigating this space, it matters.
Europe The EuroStack explained EuroStack isn’t from the EU, but it might shape its future. A private initiative to build a sovereign, open European tech stack caught my attention.
Europe Sovereignty Without Soil The Knights of Malta rule without land. So do Google, Meta, and Apple. What does it mean when power no longer needs territory to govern?
AI Governance LangWatch: Power of Evals for LLM-Based Systems When your chatbot changes behaviour overnight, how do you know why? Evals are the missing link between AI intuition and product certainty. I talked to Manouk Draisma from LangWatch.
Europe Learning to Work with the EU AI Act I used to avoid EU regulation. Now I’m learning to work with it. The AI Act isn’t perfect, but it’s shaping how I think about risk, trust, and tech.
Europe The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is Here and It's Changing How Apps Work Big tech feels broken in the EU? It’s not. It’s the Digital Markets Act. More choice, more friction, and a big shift in how apps are allowed to behave.
Europe Intentional Power: Europe Between Negawatts and Realpolitik AI runs on energy. Europe’s grid isn’t ready. I’m starting to see how digital strategy, infrastructure, and sovereignty all connect.
Europe From Resistance to Strategy: What the EU’s Digital Acts Mean for the Work I Do As I’ve made peace with regulation, I’ve noticed some signposts—practical cues for navigating strategy in this new digital terrain.
Europe Mapping Europe’s Digital Ruleset Mapping the EU tech landscape wit a focus on the Netherlands: from GDPR to ESMC, from Brussels to Brabant. A strategist’s guide to rules, funds, and where to plug in.
Europe Playing the EU Game: Learning the Digital Rules by Getting in the Game From grants to governance, the EU’s digital world is a maze. I dove in—starting with DG CONNECT, DIGITAL, and the logic behind the rules.
WhatsApp is Quietly Becoming a Platform — And That Changes Everything WhatsApp Is Becoming a Platform: What That Means for Identity, Contact Management and Strategy
AI in Practice ChatGPT Connectors: The Emergence of a New Interface Layer ChatGPT just got a new superpower: connectors. Real-time access to your tools like Drive, HubSpot and Notion—without uploading a thing.
AI in Practice Google's AI for Individuals and SMBs: Clarity, Costs, and Strategic Choices Google's AI options are powerful but confusing. Here's how I compared Google One vs Workspace—and why SMBs should think twice before locking in.
AI Governance Beyond LLM’s: The Hidden Dangers of AI in Scientific Research My focus was fixed on LLM’s like ChatGPT's disruptions until I realised, through Niall Ferguson's insights, that specialised scientific AI is the true global threat or risk.
Future of Work Will I Manage Agents as I Would Employees? AI agents are joining our teams. But will we manage them like employees? Here’s my take from the edge of strategy, automation, and organisational design.
Markdown in Google Docs: A Practical Step Forward With Google's Docs now fully supporting Markdown, revisiting this elegant format felt essential. It’s clearer, simpler, and more universally useful than ever.
AI in Practice Choosing ChatGPT Team: From AI-Confidant to Trusted Colleague Migrating to ChatGPT Team reshaped my digital workflow—less friend, more colleague. Here’s what I learned from shifting accounts, data, and mindset.
AI in Practice How OpenAI o3 Became a Geospy and Found My Photo’s Location I asked OpenAI’s o3 model to play geospy—like a human OSINT analyst. It zoomed, searched, reasoned, and nailed the photo’s location. Watch it unfold.
AI Governance Should I Opt Out of Meta’s AI Training? Opting out sounds easy. But what if it costs visibility—or influence? I’m sharing the tension, not the answer. Curious what others are doing.
Europe My Venture into Venture Capital Behind every groundbreaking technology lies a hidden system of risk, funding, and patience. This is what I discovered about venture capital.
What We Mean When We Say "Flywheel" From rollercoasters to startups: the flywheel stores energy, builds momentum, and turns early effort into lasting acceleration.
AI in Practice Who Is the Author? Authenticity in the Age of AI AI helps us write—but are we still the ones deciding what’s worth saying? A reflection on authorship, ethics, and identity.
AI Strategy Not Doing Is Also an Act In a world of instant input and infinite output, choosing not to act is a creative decision. This is a reflection on AI, growth, and intent.
AI Strategy Search in the Age of AI Search is no longer about finding—it’s about understanding. From keywords to context, here’s how AI is changing the way we ask, find, and think.
