Follow the Fear
Sometimes, life scares me. The decisions I can make, or have to make. Not the ones where the risk is reasonably easy to calculate. What will this cost me? How much time will it take? What happens if it...
View ArticleWhy AI Keeps »Forgetting« Your Work—and How to Deal With It
Gone. Just gone. Two weeks of work. Gone to waste? Two minutes earlier I had been perfectly happy. The new feature worked on the first try. Exactly the way I’d described it. I clicked through the...
View ArticleAlgorithmic Monocultures: AI’s Overlooked Diversity Problem
Until recently, companies at least had to make the same mistakes independently. One organization might overvalue prestigious universities. Another might mistake confidence for competence. A third might...
View ArticleWe Are Entering the Age of Plausibility Overload
We all knew AI would eventually generate fake citations. That was almost the boring part. The more interesting question is why so many of them passed through systems designed to evaluate knowledge in...
View ArticleThe Most Dangerous Thing About AI Might Be How Much Effort It Still Feels Like
The first time I spent an entire afternoon working with AI, I closed my laptop with that strangely satisfying feeling of having done hard intellectual work. My brain felt cooked. I had compared models,...
View ArticleHow I Ended Up Next to John Irving
A few years ago, I contributed an essay to a book about running. It was called Die Philosophie des Laufens (The Philosophie of Running) and published by Mairisch, a small independent press with...
View ArticleHe Was Done — I Still Had to Tell Him It Wasn’t Enough
His legs were shaking before he even went down into the next squat. He stood in front of me at the wall ball station with that look people get when they are no longer really deciding anything. They are...
View ArticleYou’re Not Your Job. Fine. Now What?
It usually happens in a very ordinary moment. Someone asks what you do. At dinner. On a train. Between two meetings. You answer almost automatically, but not quite. There is always that tiny pause...
View ArticleSome Things Need Tuning, Others Need Leaving
There’s a certain kind of story the internet instantly falls for. You know the format: someone with just enough status to sound unquestionable, simplicity, a symbolic detail like a black coffee, a...
View ArticleIn the Dark, Organizations See Eigengrau
Try this tonight. Turn off the lights, close the curtains, and wait until the room is as dark as it gets. Then keep your eyes open and look into the darkness. You might expect to see black — complete...
View ArticleFree somebody
You did everything right. You studied. You worked hard. You built the résumé people told you to build. Degree, internships, late nights, promotions. The quiet promise behind all of it was simple: if...
View ArticleTo Taste Everything
»Dump the first espresso of the day.« That was the advice, I saw in a reel the other day. A guy standing in a spotless kitchen, speaking with quiet authority. No drama, no irony. Just a clean...
View ArticleWelcome to the Hiring Simulator — the Strategy Game Nobody Enjoys
There’s this story we keep telling about the job market: it’s tough out there. Fine. I can live with that. And I’m saying this as someone currently in it — reorienting on the way to my next role. I’m...
View ArticleWhen Silence Becomes Signal
A few weeks ago, I posted on LinkedIn that my current role is coming to an end and that I’m exploring what’s next. The response was generous. Messages. Comments. Encouragement. The kind of digital...
View ArticleNot AI Is the Threat — People Are
»I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism.« When I read that line from Ted Chiang recently, it landed because it pulls the mask off the monster. A lot of...
View ArticleTime Tastes Different: On Trading Leadership for Presence
The first time I read about Before the Coffee Gets Cold, I was sitting in a café not unlike the one in the book — quiet, a little narrow, the kind of place where time seems to gather rather than pass....
View ArticleTime, Not Distance: What Swiss Trails Taught Me About Estimating Work
The trails in Switzerland don’t rush you. They invite you — past cowbells, into fir shade, up where the air turns glassy. Somewhere between a ridgeline and a mountain hut, a small yellow sign rewired...
View ArticleAutumn Is a Masterclass in Transitions: How to Navigate Everyday Shifts at Work
The light tilts, the colors deepen, pavements shine after quick showers. Autumn moves the city from one state to another without fuss or apology. That same current runs through our workdays: from tiny...
View ArticleYou Want to Start Running? 10+1 Very Personal Tips for Beginners
A while ago, a friend of mine told me she wanted to start running – and asked if I had any tips. That got me thinking: wait, didn’t I write something about that ages ago? And yes, I did. Ten years ago,...
View ArticleWhy We Crave Strong Leaders in Crisis — And Why That Might Be a Problem
1. The Pattern: Crisis Hits, and We Look Up Take a moment and think back to the last time you felt truly uncertain — maybe during a global pandemic, a major reorganization at work, or a personal...
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