At the start of 2025 I was optimistic about how AI will change how we produce software. I had had I somewhat eye-opening experience with Replit in the end of 2024; building fullstack applications, just by prompting. But at that time, it was “only for prototyping” and all in all the Replit experience, though awesome, did not match the software development and teamwork processes and lifecycle I had…
I really enjoyed this book called “ There Is No Antimemetic Division ” by someone or something called “qntm”. It has one of those completely different ideas and approaches that makes a brain hurt in good ways. The idea is that instead of there being memorable memes that propagate in people’s minds, there are anti-memes that are impossible to transfer. Or even remember at all. There are artefacts…
In the future we will manage two different things; people and AI’s. We have no idea how fast the AI’s will develop and whether these will end up being the same. Managing and leading people will increasingly be about coaching them to self-manage and manage others, too. Everyone needs to be cooperative with people, their teams, their peers, and with the surrounding organisation - instead of working…
Specialised AI is advancing in leaps and bounds. In 2022, image and text generators have proven to be actually useful. AI so far has been an obscure tool that could contribute to something in theory - but for me, I couldn’t be bothered. Only when I could try out Midjourney (via Discrod of all things) was I amazed. Or GPT-3 via Lex , over a year after it had been released. Midjourney generates…
Let’s begin with an example: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel is one of the better and efficient books I’ve read lately. It’s short-ish but information-packed, and not dense in terms of jargon or otherworldly concepts. It’s an intro to a handful of personal and even global finance and economic ideas and also sidetracks to a set of more general psychological concepts. It pushes the reader…
“Should I explore something new, or exploit something I’ve found satisfying before?” This is a valuable dichotomy and a mental model I’ve come across in a book called “Algorithms to Live By”, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. We can position many endeavours within a spectrum, where one end is purely new experiences and the other consists of things we repeat. The things we repeat, we can either…
Consider the following: People want to be things, instead of do things or own things People act in regards to (role) models , instead of goals People imitate those models The smaller the distance to the model, the easier it is to imitate and become similar More imitation leads to less differentiation , which leads to envy, jealousy and tension within a group Sacrifices of scapegoats release…
You can’t affect nature or nurture, but you can choose your role models. You can’t pick who your parents were, but you can choose whom you would have wanted them to be. These words of wisdom are often attributed to Seneca the Younger (I think), and probably to many others too. I pick and choose some peoples’ traits and construct a sort of synthesis out of them. I know there is not a person who…
I read a whole book about Cato the Younger . This is something I never imagined I would do. I can barely remember the character from HBO’s magnificent series Rome . I find that whole setting and era intriguing (~50 BC), with its Roman politics, warfare and some philosophical outputs. What’s cool is that we have some actual writings and a lot of first-hand information from that time. What interests…
More about the organisational phases , on problems of the green mindset and how teal aims to fix them. a reminder: red -> amber -> orange -> green -> teal Numerous companies operate at the green level, and life, as well as work, can be fabulous in there. But there exist some problems there. A green organisation can reach a dead-end in tribalism . It often ends up as overly patriotic and soft…