The archive

A few things worth thinking about.

Essays on product management, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and the social consequences of software.

24 Sept 2026AI

Skills and creativity are human traits that should not become rare

AI can increase output without increasing curiosity or judgment. Why human skills, experience and intentional product design matter more than ever.

13 May 2026AI

The context is everything for AI and Humans

AI becomes useful when we stop treating it like magic and start giving it context. A practical reflection on agents, knowledge work, skill, and why better human organization makes better AI outcomes.

25 Nov 2025Essay

The AI bubble

AI has given us new empowering tools, caused a massive surge in tech stock valuations and sparked conversation that will eventually settle, finally describing the real value for…

31 Oct 2025Finance

A trading competition between AI models

Six LLMs compete trading crypto perpetual futures to show which model is best at trading. I have been watching for two weeks.

26 Aug 2025Essay

Algorithms are bad for society, but we are better than them

I read less and less. Despite the Internet giving me access to reputable sources on virtually any topic, my online information intake is mostly low-value knowledge. I have a feeling that algorithms became so wicked…

27 Mar 2025Essay

Beyond Individual Blame. Systemic Solutions

The recent revelations about high-level government officials accidentally sharing sensitive military information through Signal highlight a critical intersection of personal responsibility and systemic security…

26 Mar 2025Essay

Reimagining Publishing in the Modern Media Landscape

Publishing faces a critical digital transformation challenge, requiring executives who bridge traditional journalism and modern digital strategies. Developing user-centered digital products that maintain the core principles of quality reporting is the next challenge.

24 Mar 2025Essay

The Attention Crisis

Remember when important discussions happened in meetings or through carefully crafted emails? What once would have been a focused 30-minute conversation has morphed into dozens of notifications spread across hours or…

24 Mar 2025Essay

Be Google, be me.

Be Google Have more data than God Sell ads like my life depends on it (because it does) Know what you want before you do "Don’t be evil" lol AI overlord in the making Everyone hates me, but everyone needs me Incognito…

02 Aug 2024Web Development

Astro is the ideal lightweight framework to build content websites

Web Development. Content websites, blogs, simple marketing websites can all benefit from a simpler development experience to achieve a finely tuned presentation.

22 Jul 2024Virtual Machines

Run Ubuntu 24.0.4 on Windows Hyper-V virtual machines

Hyper-V manager is included in Windows 10 and Windows 11 Pro computers and running the latest LTS Ubuntu desktop is very easy. Upon installation, Linux won’t have all the necessary drivers to take full advantage of the virtualization features of Windows in the Linux guest.

18 Mar 2024Privacy

Getting out of the Google ecosystem

Cutting the Google cord is more difficult than expected but the reward is to be part of something better, more user-centric and most importantly privacy-respecting.

17 Jan 2024Product Management

Product backlog estimation and refinement with Story Points

Story Points can help making better user story estimates than time-based estimation. Agile sprint planning benefits from estimating risk, uncertainty and complexity.

12 Dec 2023Ghost

How to configure Ghost transactional emails with Docker Compose ENV variables

If you are getting errors in Ghost running on Docker when signing up for a new user, adjust your ENV variables to get rid of a couple of…

27 Oct 2023Infrastructure

How to run a free virtual machine on Apple Silicon M1

Run virtual machines on Apple Silicon for free using Apple virtualization environment.

26 Oct 2023Publishing

How to start a web and email newsletter publication in 2023

Integrate email newsletters with web posts in WordPress.

06 Oct 2023IT Management

Low latency remote desktop solution for multiple OS

Reemo is the fastest and flexible remote desktop solution for low latency remote connections.

12 Dec 2022Business Intelligence

Clickhouse for business intelligence and web analytics

How to import MySQL data in Clickhouse for fast business intelligence analysis of large data sets.

18 Feb 2020Electric Cars

Electric car ownership and driving guide

I have had my driving licence since I was 18. It's been 22 years – and even though I'm not keeping records – I have certainly averaged 40,000 miles a year which brings the total a little over 800,000 miles driven so far. I have had electric cars since 2016.

26 Jun 2018Product Management

Customer care is the new killer product

Estimating the importance of exceptional customer care in digital…

16 May 2018Product Management

The story so far with Medium

Medium has the opportunity to provide an ecosystem and a viable business model.

18 Jun 2017Privacy

Facebook real name policies and ruling the world

Facebook’s real name policy is inherently naive, dangerous and evil. Ever since Silicon Valley was empowered to strive for real-world domination, there have been countless attempts to disrupt lives by collecting,…

25 Jul 2016Product Management

Newspapers could be saved by looking at the metrics that really support their business

Product people look at the right metrics to support both the company’s vision and the business model. Attention minutes are way more valuable than pageviews.