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2026

  • 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…

  • Essay

    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…

  • Essay

    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…

  • Essay

    Traditional consulting will die by PowerPoint

    AI will not kill consulting; PowerPoint is already taking care of that.

2017

2015

  • Essay

    The Planning Fallacy

    Why deterministic planning fails in uncertain systems, and how practitioners can plan with humility.

2014