I’ve been doing a lot of research about the Web3 phenomenon (check this long read, you won’t regret it) for the past weeks and one thing I noticed was that there seems to be a lot of confusion about the difference between — the decentralized, blockchain-based web — and Web…

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about companies needing to integrate an ESG (Environmental, social, and corporate governance) approach into their strategy, business models, processes etc. Not just for the greater good, but because consumers and (future) employees expect this. And there are indeed some pretty interesting examples…

By Laurence Van Elegem who is equally confused as you about Web3 because she only studied Germanic languages for crying out loud and not engineering or coding (Why is this even happening to her? Please make it stop!) Welcome, dear visitor of this document, to the wonderful and incredibly mysterious…

Before I get into the ‘why’, though: some perspective. I also remember that, almost 10 years ago, there was a lot of talk about the sharing economy. Sharing was becoming “the new owning”. Access would become the focus, not assets. People no longer wanted the DVD. They wanted the movie…

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about two massive opposite forces in technology which are the root cause of a great many interconnected and really Big problems. Yes, I call them problems and not challenges as we, business people, so often like to do, because that’s exactly what they are…

Interoperability might be one of the most boring sounding words I know. It used to make me think of dumb, unconnected systems that are unable to communicate with one another. About protocols and data compatibility. About databases that are unable to communicate. Things that don’t exactly excite. Today I realized…

It’s funny how so many of us believe that human structures are somehow special. As if the rest of nature is more knowable, more predictable but our own designs — companies, the economy, society — are so wildly complex, ambiguous and uncertain that we could never truly understand them. Image…

“The God of the Gaps” might be one of the most poetic concepts in the history of science. Since I heard it from (I think) writer Neil Gaiman, about 2 years ago, it keeps creeping back into my mind. I always knew that I was going to write something about…

I’ve always been fascinated by the contradiction between our view that technology can help us forecast the future and our belief that we can’t predict the future by extrapolating from the past. First of all, if the latter was true — that we could extrapolate to predict — than the…