Constant Thinking

During our summer vacation in Italy, I had a silly idea: what happens if you feed an image generator random data instead of a prompt?

A few years ago, I watched a thirty-minute video that changed the way I saw the world economy forever.

Every summer, a shoebox wins.

I regularly use the Perplexity API, whether from the command line or by letting Claude use it through an MCP, as a second search engine for its research.

Earlier this week, I spent five hours at the WERK1 coworking space in Munich, moving three projects forward at once: the brain dump that would become this blog post, a contribution to an open source project, and a redesign of my blog’s analytics.

„Nah ist / Und schwer zu fassen der Gott. / Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst / Das Rettende auch.” — Friedrich Hölderlin, Patmos (1803) (Near is, / and difficult to grasp, the god. / But where danger is, grows / the saving power also.)

TL;DR: AI made the coding part of software fast, and that speed didn’t create chaos so much as expose where your organization was already slow: the hand-offs between teams.

Last month I sat down with Cris Roata to record an episode of her podcast, Catching More Green Lights in Life.

Detailed write-up by Michael Leibovich on how he used Claude Code (inside the Claude Desktop app) for implementing his own Chief of staff setup.

In February this year, I wrote about why I stopped trying to engineer prompts and started delegating intent instead.

Most people use AI like a search engine with extra steps.

Here’s a video I just uploaded to YouTube, walking through 7+1 examples of how AI has woven itself into my daily life — from the mundane to the surprisingly useful.

TL;DR: The best “prompt engineering” technique isn’t engineering at all—it’s delegation.

According to media pundits, software stocks are “crashing”, and there’s a “SaaSpocalypse” going on.

I’ve been transcribing my YouTube videos locally for a few months now.

After 27 years in tech—working at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and AWS, then coaching dozens of colleagues through promotions from both sides—I’ve learned something that most people get backwards: Your career belongs to you.

A YouTube viewer reached out to me the other day after watching one of my videos.

A 25-year career without goals—and why that worked better than the alternative This guitar is more than 15 years old.