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• The copilot guessing game
• Why LLMs feel natural but digital systems don't
• The limits of non-linear work
• Two Platform Shifts and why AI feels different
• The text UI paradox
• Let's build a better ERP
• Evolving craft of venture capital
• Humanity as a compass
• Edge computing gold rush
• Audiobooks' third wave
• What are dynamic UIs optimising for?
• The Slowest Operation in Computing
• The China sunangle problem
• Double-loop learning
• Scratch
• Contrast as anchor
• Math is not the hardest thing of AI
• Web 2.5
• 10x innovation
• The potential to simplify cloud
• Viable niche software teams
• Assertions for 2025: Rethinking AI Interfaces, The Rise of Legacy Commerce, and Europe’s Tech Pivot
• Excel is a whiteboard.
• Crowdsourcing truth
• From flowchart to app
• The emergence of legacy commerce
• Buttons are back
• The Apple Car that was
• Regulation tipping point
• Chaining bots
• McKinsey’s 18 future arenas of competition
• Paradox of regulation
• Attio is coming
• The decline of gaming consoles
• Actual valuable work
• Service business toolmaking
• The AI assisted design sprint
• The new magic subscription price anchor
• The fleeting nature of tech
• The fox and the hedgehog
• 4 stages of career contribution
• Overworking the dough
• Tech pessimism in mainstream
• Most software isn’t a tech problem
• The next opportunity lies in information consolidation.
• Paradox of price and value
• Paradox of capitalism and happiness
• How Bolt is surpassing Uber
• A glimpse into the future of commercials
• The marketing of open source SaaS
• What happened to TED?
• Doored room principle
• Ever higher expectations from our tools
• Digital escapade
• Writing is thinking
• Nuclear commercial drive
• Flexible rules
• Noticing good questions
• PHP moment
• Inspiring optimism from SpaceX
• Offshoring agency work
• The rise of integrated tech and the decline of platforms
• Europe’s five stages of grief
• Million dollar freelancers
• European cloud trend
• Building in public momentum
• The innovation overshoot in electric vehicle transition
• The risk of the everything app
• The copilot wars
• Positioning statement
• The web as an OS
• Remarkably low prices of copilots
• Speak your clients’ language
• The allure of productivity systems
• The agency model is under pressure
• Rebranding safety to manliness
• Reflection questions
• Digital public property
• The unintuitiveness of defining problems
• Platform word-inflation
• Bandit’s brilliant marketing reframe
• Free forever business model
• Quiet vacationing
• The leadership miracle inside IBM
• Chatbot dip
• What’s next for e-commerce
• Acting like an owner
• Latent vs blatant problems
• Think! Make? Perfect.
• Optimism shift
• The commodification of e-commerce
• Most software is not a tech problem
• Excel is a whiteboard
• Europe, don’t regulate yourself to the dark ages
• The manufacturing clock mindset
• Sentry’s mandatory innovation contract
• The market opportunity for selling hardware AI servers
• Barefoot Development
• Adidas and Puma
• Swedish Tech Wave
• Sudoku strategy
• How Raycast standardises native Mac design of plugins
• The downfall of the headless
• AI is a catch-all term
• Idea: Presentable doc builder
• The problem-solution paradox
• Stuck app pricing model
• SetApps business model
• The nostalgia harware hop
• European tech
• Reinventing computer interaction
• Toolkit
• Dexly
• Opportunities, ideas and things that should exist
• What is luxury digital?
• The human-machine paradox
• macOS & iPadOS
• The enduring files and folders paradigm
• Opportunity for open source companies
• Mid market valley of death
• Paying for professional tools
• The LinkedIn - Mastodon - Twitter vacuum
• Dominating from the start
• The search for content business model
• Time for a more advanced iPad UI
• CSS’ comeback
• The AI illusion
• The year for on-device AI
• Disproportionate value of digital companies
• What happened to the jawbone proposition?
• Programming syntax is beginning
• Shiny new toy syndrome
• The IT distrust problem
• Making incremental sexy
• Social climate change
• Paperlike tech
• Developer target market
• Multiple discovery
• Amateurs vs experts
• Compress complexity, don’t layer
• Mintzberg cycles of organisational change
• The illusion of data perfectionism
• The curious thing about speed
• Thee Mile Island design
• Price finding strategy
• Hero ingredients
• Co-created brilliance
• Marketing as a reminder
• Product information authorities
• On product thinking
• On my publishing
• On branding
• Take pride in simplifying things
• Bard
• Aesthetic as truth
• Define the problem
• On strategy
• Satisfaction vs happiness
• Expense or investment
• Iterate your way round a problem
• Sparkle of success
• Carry-ons
• Soapy handle
• Four languages
• My corporation
• Optimism of perspectives
• Brands as political identity
• Good actors and the mirror of our emotions
• Influence of stories and fake transparency
• Logos - value of words