An art student sits in front of his laptop, staring at an image that an AI generated in four seconds. It’s a landscape in the rain. The light reflects off the puddles with almost absurd precision. The color tones feel well thought out. The composition is strong. The student zooms […]
Monthly Archives: May 2026
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The strange thing about truly elegant ideas is that they almost always seem obvious only after someone has already thought of them. Like when someone turns a ketchup bottle upside down before putting it back in the fridge. Or when someone puts a receipt in a shoebox right after the […]
The most interesting thing in a meeting is often never said out loud. Everyone has been there. Someone shows a PowerPoint with thirty-two slides about “future collaboration strategy”. The words are well chosen. The diagrams are nice. No one objects. People nod politely. The coffee is lukewarm but professional. Then […]
Few things move as slowly as people who think they understand each other. It might sound strange. One spontaneously thinks that misunderstandings should arise when people speak different languages. But the really dangerous misunderstandings often arise when everyone uses the exact same words and nods around the table in agreement […]
It often starts with a meeting that smells of coffee and efficiency. Someone says, “I have an idea.” Then something strange happens quickly. One person leans back and asks about the budget. Another wonders if there’s already a competitor doing the same thing. A third points out that “we actually […]
The most important thing on the page is often what is not there. Imagine a poster where every millimeter is filled with text, colors, symbols, logos and exclamation points. Someone obviously wanted to say everything at once. The result is almost always the opposite. Nothing sticks. The eye does not […]
There is something fishy about perfect things. There are hotel rooms that are so perfect you almost feel uncomfortable. Everything is white, straight, quiet and polished. The pillows lie as if they had been raised in the military. Not a grain of dust is visible. Not a scratch. Not a […]
Imagine the following scene. A young manager walks into a meeting and says that the organization should stop optimizing what already works and instead start experimenting with something that is not yet yielding results. The room falls silent. Someone coughs a little strategically. Another starts talking about budget discipline. After […]
A programmer stays up late at night and posts code on the internet because it feels interesting. Some others start using it. Someone improves it a little. Someone builds on it. Suddenly half the internet uses the same basic technology and billion-dollar companies start making money on something that was […]
There is a particular type of meeting where someone leans forward, looks seriously at the PowerPoint and says: “We need to make sure that this initiative is strategically important and has a structure that we can present to everyone before we move on.” It sounds very sensible. The problem is […]
There are few things that feel as strangely satisfying as throwing away an old box that you’ve been moving around between storage units for ten years without ever opening it. You lift it. You look at it a little uncertain. You feel a slight twinge of guilt. And then something […]
Imagine someone telling you that you are not creative. That you miss that little something extra. That spark that some seem to have and others don’t. Most people accept it pretty quickly. You place yourself in a compartment. Creative or not creative. But what if the problem is not that […]
Imagine waking up tomorrow and everything you read confirming exactly what you already believe. All articles nod in agreement. All analyzes point in the same direction. All the comments seem to be written by people who think just like you. It almost sounds like the dream of a rational society […]
There is something almost comical about how much time organizations spend on strategy and how little actually changes. People gather, analyze, discuss and formulate. Everyone agrees that something needs to happen. Nevertheless, most things continue as usual. It is rarely due to a lack of will. It is due to […]
Imagine a big dinner where everyone contributes something. Someone brings bread, someone cooks a stew, someone arranges music and someone brings wine. The atmosphere is good. There is community, laughter and the feeling that this is something we are doing together. In the middle of the dinner, someone stands up […]