Work
2026
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Essay
S is for Sovereignty
Surviving the AI singularity is no longer a matter of political pride for Europe; reclaiming sovereignty over models, data, and silicon is a matter of…
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From punch cards to tell-n-code
From punch cards to BASIC to a small army of coding agents: every step made the human-machine interface a little kinder. The latest jump is…
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More is different: my useless PhD just became relevant
Twenty years after a doctorate in complex-systems modelling stopped being good dinner-party conversation, the word at its heart — emergence — has become the word…
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Traditional consulting will die by PowerPoint
AI will not kill consulting; PowerPoint is already taking care of that.
2017
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How to fix a Ferrari engine on the run
A practical view of distressed project recovery when the project cannot simply stop.
2015
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The Planning Fallacy
Why deterministic planning fails in uncertain systems, and how practitioners can plan with humility.
2014
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Big data and the bottom-up malevolence
Big data creates value only when it starts with the business problem, not the dataset.
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The Lost Art of Business Symbiosis
How interconnected business ecosystems make collaborative value creation more powerful than local optimisation.