PersonaPlex marks a shift from dictation to conversation Dictation turns speech into text. Conversation works in time. PersonaPlex marks the moment voice AI starts to operate in real-time dialogue.
Future of Work What coding with AI feels like now There is a lot of noise about AI replacing programmers. I wanted something else: a sense of what is feasible, what is throwaway, and where judgement still matters.
ChatGPT ChatGPT Personal vs Business If you use ChatGPT both privately and at work, you may have noticed this: one conversation seems to carry on over time, the other keeps resetting. Same system, different behaviour. That difference is deliberate, and it matters.
AI Exploring ISO 42001 and AI governance As I dive deeper into EU AI regulation, ISO 42001 keeps surfacing. This piece explores what it is, how certification works, and why it matters for vendors.
Future of Work AI literacy: from definition to practice AI literacy rarely shows up as a skill gap. It appears when organisations need to justify decisions, manage risk, and remain accountable.
Etymology Word of the year: model The word model comes from modulus, Latin for ‘measure’. It refers to simplified representations we use to make sense of reality, from maps to AI systems.
AI Blogging year in Review 2025 A short reflection on writing, learning, and making deliberate choices in a year where the digital ground kept shifting.
Europe The Hot Potato of Compliance From GDPR to the EU AI Act, a recurring pattern emerges: European regulation lands in procurement, spreading responsibility, caution, and friction.
AI Why AI Image Editing Is Often Rebuilding AI can make true pixel edits, but many image “fixes” work by reconstruction. Typography and colourisation expose where rebuilding replaces editing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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?
ChatGPT 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.
ChatGPT 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.