Content 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.
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.
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
Tools 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.
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.
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.
Tools 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.
Tools 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.
Tools 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.
Tools 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.
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.
Tools 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.
Tools From Ideas to Precision: Why I Use Mermaid with LLMs Image generation is messy for structure. With Mermaid + LLMs, diagrams become clear, tweakable, and practical. A real tool for strategy and logic.
Google Chrome, Gemini Nano, and the Browser as AI Platform The AI race is moving into the browser. Experiments with local models helped me recognise Chrome’s Gemini Nano for what it is.
Social media How I Tuned My Social Notifications into a Single, Silent Stream During the holidays, I rethought notifications. The result: one place, no noise, no rush. A calmer way to stay connected without being pulled in.
AI Running a Local LLM on Your iPhone I explored how far mobile AI has come by running LLMs directly on my iPhone. No cloud, no upload. Here’s what I learned from testing Haplo AI.
Tools How a VPN Got Us a Better Hotel Deal On the road to San Marino, a forgotten VPN setting revealed how your virtual location can shape hotel prices and exposed the digital borders we live within.
Tools USB-C: A Universal Plug with Many Faces I stumbled upon a small joy: my e‑reader now connects directly to my iPhone. That moment sparked a deeper look into the messy clarity of the USB‑C standard.
Tools 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.
ChatGPT 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.
Tools Descript - From Visual Storytelling to Storytelling with Visuals Descript flips video editing: start with your words, not your footage. Here’s how it changed the way I create—and why I’m not going back.
Tools Fibre Feels Faster — And It’s Not About Speed I used to chase top speeds. Fibre showed me what really matters: low latency, equal uploads, and no peak slowdowns. That’s when the internet feels fast.
Tools Rediscovering Paste: A Productivity Boost for Mac and iOS Users Clipboard, Upgraded: Copy-paste is basic—Paste makes it powerful. A forgotten tool reappeared in my workflow, and I’m wondering how I ever managed without it.
Tools Featured Fireflies.ai: Meeting Transcriptions & Automation Fireflies.ai changed how I handle meetings, capturing every conversation with ease. Its AI-driven transcription is powerful, but some features need fine-tuning.
Tools Signal vs. WhatsApp Moving between Signal & WhatsApp. I start using Signal for private communication, and started viewing WhatsApp as public social media.
