Straightforward discussions on why often we disagree with the current hype, without filters or buzzwords.
Beginner
After our full discussion about the GAFAM and other possible frailties, as they headed in 2023, I predicted a few things. One of them was that Microsoft would be uniquely able to leverage AI quicker and with more acumen than Google, Meta, Amazon, or Apple. Even if everyone is touting
Weak Signals
When discussing innovation, pretty soon, we end up talking about marketing and branding. If you do something new that challenges the market, there's an embedded drive to be remarkable yourself by shaking the usual market codes. In 2003, Seth Godin wrote The Purple Cow and summarised many key
Hot Takes
The newsletter today is about something different. I've recently been involved with several tech entrepreneurs wanting to reposition and improve their existing businesses. Not the usual large corporation with complex (and political) issues to deal with, nor the early-stage startup that still has to make sense of everything
Hot Takes
Six months ago, we decided that we were going to shift our way of working as the world was slowly coming back from the pandemic in slightly different ways. The main idea was to let go of jumping in planes and trains every week and settle back a bit more
Advanced
Everything I read from people that actually got to experience Apple's VR headset is the same. What an amazing solution with top-notch integration, state-of-the-art technology, and thoughtful interface design. (...) “breakthrough” is Apple’s term for a feature that identifies real human beings who approach you while immersed. They
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For decades Ted Chiang has been my favorite living science-fiction writer. Winners of numerous Hugo and Nebula prizes (Nobel and Pulitzer for SF writers), he's always been writing at the intersection of hard technology and philosophy. No dudes fighting with physics-defying lightsabers and spaceships going vroom in the
Newsletter
Ten years ago, I wrote an article that would end up being key to how Stéphanie and I would define our business. The article's title was Small is Beautiful, a Vision of Excellence with Fewer than 10 Employees. I was arguing at the time that micro-enterprises might be
Beginner
In just a few days, we'll know if Apple mixed reality goggles is a dead or live Shrödinger's cat. My bet consistently was against such a launch as there is no content nor problem to solve, and Apple never enters a market first. Or when they
Hot Takes
In a seminal keynote from 2011, Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad, became instantaneously famous – or infamous, depending on your current job description – by stating that advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable. The keynote is all over the place and more a stream of consciousness rather than
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Just a quick pat on the shoulder here as Microsoft just announced they would move from ChatGPT-like solutions in the browser to the real disruption: running private instances of their AI/LLM solution on industrial customers data lakes. And boy, are they full in on this! They don't
Hot Takes
I spent a decade listening to numerous prophets and gurus explaining how, after social (web 2.0), the web will reach its next paradigm: web 3.0. During this decade, what would redefine the web has been a wave of dead-on-arrival ideas and technologies. The Semantic Web, the Internet of
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Neeva is a search engine launched in 2019 that raised $77.5 million of funding from VCs such as Greylock and Sequoia Capital. The project was simple and effective: beat Google at its own game by implementing a better crawling and ranking algorithm (that allows you to find the best