Gen Z Is Not Lost. It Is Learning What to Do with Its Tools
A conversation with 17-year-old founder Adam Gerin about brain rot, ambition, AI, responsibility, and the difficult transition from consuming the internet to building something of your own.
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What AI Cannot See: Intuition, Education, and the Human Work of Trust
AI can find patterns in our stories, but intuition, trust, and the human element still shape the decisions that matter most.
The Month AI Stopped Being a Toy
June was the month AI moved from demos into governance, budgets, trust, and the messy reality of work.
From Prison Classrooms to AI Tutors: What Actually Matters in EdTech Now
Why teachers’ influence, focused platforms, and equal access matter more than another “engaging” feature
November 2025: The Month Software Stopped Being a Craft and Became Infrastructure
Why November Became the Month When Separate Trends Finally Converged Into a Single Shift
Why Schools Still Feel Like Factories — And What We’re Missing About Students
Notes and reflections from my conversation with Carl Morris & Saif Sarwar
A Marketer in the Classroom
It turns out this combination is exactly what the EdTech world has been missing
Learning in the Darkest Places
How Marwa Zahr and her program bring education — and hope — where schools no longer stand
No Speed Limit: EdTech’s Wild Ride in October 🚀
EdTech’s future belongs to those who think big, move fast, and never leave anyone behind. 🌟
The Inside Story of Scaling Brainly Into the World’s #1 EdTech App
How do you scale an education app to 350 million students in 35 countries—with almost no marketing budget?
AI Agents in Education & Accessibility: Join Us in Kraków
Together we connect ideas, people, and technologies that matter
Technology Won’t Save Schools
Until We Fix the Real Crisis
Highlights from the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 (vs 2024)
Python Is Back on Top, Docker Is in the Air, and AI… Is Getting Tiring.
💡 What If You Died Tomorrow? Why Schools Should Teach Death, Money, and Digital Life
A conversation with the founders of LegacyApp about building trust, organizing chaos, and educating without teaching.
The Rebuild Era: Software in a Cautiously Optimistic World
We’ve had the correction. We’ve had the freeze. Now, something else is happening.
📈 The New Shape of Software: What H1 2025 Tells Us About the Future of IT
Businesses are investing in tech again, citizen developers, software world is adopting to a new playbook and more...
☁️ When Tariffs Hit the Cloud
How Trump's 2025 Trade War Is Influencing IT Outsourcing in Europe ; Keep Coding, Keep Connecting
Vibe Coding - Transformations in Software Development - March 2025
Challenges and Concerns of Vibe Coding, "Curator" or an Engineer?
The State of Software Development – February 2025 (along with some predictions)
AI is coding, low-code is empowering, security threats are lurking in the shadows and predictions for the rest of 2025
The Impact of Donald Trump's Presidency on the Polish IT Sector
Key Opportunities and Challenges, Political Uncertainty and Barriers