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- An AI redid our consulting engagement. Who would have defended the document in front of the client? An AI rebuilt the deliverable of an engagement billed at tens of thousands of euros in a few hours, and the result was good. What clients really buy is someone who can hold their ground the day they challenge it.
- Shadow IT has become uncountable. What if we stopped the census campaigns? Taking a census of a population of tools that is exploding no longer makes sense. What regains control of shadow IT is not one more control: it is an official fast lane, opened before the workaround becomes the shortest path.
- TradeLens was a good decision. And it failed. And that's okay. TradeLens tracked 70 million containers before shutting down in 2022. That didn't make it a bad decision — and confusing the outcome with the decision is the bias that makes our IT post-mortems useless.
- How to build your 2nd Brain, a tutorial after 100 hours of deployment A hundred summer hours spent building my second brain, starting by writing the rubric that says what such a system must produce. The journey, the setup, and the score: 20 out of 30.
- Self-assessment of an AI-augmented second brain — standalone protocol A measurement protocol in seventeen use cases, to find out what an AI-assisted personal knowledge setup can really produce — and what you should definitely not build.
- The AI Act for those who haven’t read it (and don’t plan to) What the European regulation really says. And what remains unclear.
- Burnout 2× higher than before Covid: why the numbers don’t change practices Since 2020, the same chart keeps going up. Every year a new barometer, a new record, a new right-to-disconnect charter. The problem…
- The day your business delivered in 3 days what your IT delivered in 3 months… and what you… From the triggering incident to the target organization: an IT transformation story in four acts.
- Free access to knowledge never taught anyone anything Why the AI revolution widens the gap between those who understand and everyone else.
- Everyone a developer with AI in 2025, really? With zero technical knowledge, here is how I set out to build a web application with AI agents
- The year 2024 in 5 books For the 5th year in a row, the time has come to present my 5 books of the year, the 5 books that moved me, shook me, made me…
- Authors, is your end near? At a time when simple prompts can write novels, is it still worth the effort to write?