2026-01-12
Scenario: The Year of Context Protocols (2026.3)
Prediction 3 for 2026: Context Protocols like MCP will become foundational infrastructure, quietly enabling intelligent, agentic systems across industries.
2025-12-10
Scenario: The Rise of AIO and the Snake Oil Salesmen (2026.2)
In 2026, as AI-generated content floods the web, brands must shift from SEO to AI Optimization, or Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) to ensure their presence in AI-driven responses, navigating both misinformation and the return of traditional PR.
2025-12-08
Scenario: The Industrialization of Knowledge Work (2026.1)
In 2026, we will likely witness the emergence of Agentic Operating Models, marking a fundamental shift in how knowledge work is conducted: adoption of agentic architectures that industrialize workflows.
2025-11-17
Mgmt: In search of the wave?
Sometimes it takes a while to see the ground shifting under your feet. A reflection on management paradigms and the wave we are about to ride.
2025-08-30
Tech: Echoes of Winters Past?
Recent opinions on AI paint a paradox of disillusionment and unprecedented investment. While Generative AI faces scrutiny, the true, lasting value lies in the Applied AI. Whats coming is not a true winter, but a shift in focus from R&D to designing intelligent systems.
2025-08-21
Tech: Castles in the Code
The tides of AI are reshaping how we build. I’ve been thinking about how large language models (LLMs) are making what were once monumental architectural decisions feel trivial. Perhaps this leads to future where the art of software architecture lies in the collaboration between humans and machines.
2025-07-07
Tech: My Summer Car Project
Or, how I found out the limits of vibe-coding, and learned to love them.
2025-06-27
Tech: Unpacking the Digital DNA of Social
Summer 2025 special: What if we classified social media by their core technology? By focusing on the underlying architecture, we might gain a clearer understanding of how these services work and why they feel so distinct.
2025-06-13
Biz: What if we organized around value for a change?
Where I return to a maxim I heard years ago, and how it has shaped my thinking on value, measurement, and the structure of teams.
2025-06-08
Biz: The brave new future of careers?
What if the winning formula is to use the Large Language Models (LLMs) not just to hire the best people but to build them internally?
2025-05-28
Tech: kW/h is not the Question We Should Be Asking
How to rethink the conversation around AI energy use and the environmental costs of our digital footprint.
2025-05-20
Biz: The Renaissance of Project Management
A few days back, I posted on LinkedIn that we need a renaissance in project management. What if we could re-invent project management to streamline team-to-strategy alignment?
2025-01-31
Management Fallacies: The project mode override
A look at the most common management fallacies created by trying to see everything through the language and mental model of the project management frameworks.
2024-11-19
Tech: Where the AI is taking us
My observations on the how the AI landscape is evolving, and the emerging four distinct approaches to creating AI powered services.
2024-11-07
Tech: Why Architecture Fails (and How to Fix It)
Lately, I've realized that the problem isn't architecture but how we approach it. We often jump into technical details without asking the crucial question: Why? Perhaps we get so caught up in how to build something that we forget why we're building it in the first place?
2024-10-10
Mgmt: Type 2 Laziness == Profit?
"Some thoughts on Type 2 Laziness" and its potential to revolutionize workplace productivity. This leadership philosophy challenges traditional notions of laziness, arguing that a strategic approach to work – one that prioritizes efficiency, innovation, and thoughtful problem-solving – can lead to greater success.
2024-09-05
Biz: The curse of cycles
The Finnish press never fails to recount the joke: "Lumi yllätti autoilijat!" – as the first snow catches half of the drivers unprepared and skidding with summer tires still on. Snow seems to come at least twice a year in business.
2024-02-23
Tech: What makes building quality services so hard?
Why is it so hard to build quality services? The real reasons are much simpler but more challenging to admit – than blaming the tech.
2024-02-06
Tech: The high cost of computation
Or what we need to understand when discussing AI and what it can do. And some hints on how to adjust our tech roadmaps and strategies.
2024-01-18
Mgmt: Is efficient ever optimal?
Random thoughts on the Finnish tendency to optimize for efficiency without impact or value.
2024-01-05
Tech: A pebble is not a monolith.
The Monolith vs. Microservices discussion is a prime example of how we try to oversimplify things. While microservices are a fantastic way to solve business problems at scale, they are not a panacea. A distributed computing paradigm will only reduce the complexity of a solution if the source of complexity is monolithic architecture.
2023-12-18
Tech: Beyond the generative revolution
My predictions for the tech trends of 2024. Besides the generative AI paradigm shift, I`m keeping tabs on the Edge, next-gen apps, composability, and low code – which all align with the guesses of the bigger names in the analytics industry.
2023-12-11
Tech: The Age of Stochastic Parrots
When tech forecasts and predictions look like LLM generated text, we are likely trying to solve the wrong problem with the LLMs.
2023-12-05
Agile: the hard truth about empiricism
Some thoughts on why it is so hard to measure anything else than revenue in most organizations.
2023-11-28
Tech: A convergence at the Edge
A question presented by Kaj Pyyhtiä led me to a bigger fish — a plausible, maybe even probable, tech convergence happening around the edge-compute space.
2023-11-21
Strategy: the things we forget to vocalize
We have been watching Lego Ninjago with my older kid. And it's a lot like watching how the web industry evolves over time.
2023-11-13
Tech: Perhaps we should reinvent the wheel from time to time?
We have been watching Lego Ninjago with my older kid. And it's a lot like watching how the web industry evolves over time.
2023-11-09
Tech: Solving problems in the post-GenAI world
Why do developers (designers, product people, and so forth) suddenly need to learn to create genAI solutions?
