Digital transformations are more known for their failures than their successes. Blame is typically attributed to the technology, whilst other aspects such as organisational and cultural readiness are rarely considered dimensions. The usual story goes like this: the organisation buys a platform, development and deployment turn out harder than the sales deck suggested, the budget…
We are mesmerised right now, all of us. Watch someone using tools like Claude Code, or any of the coding agents doing the rounds, and it looks like a magic trick: a description goes in, a working application comes out, and the temptation is to stare at the output and marvel at the tool. I…
I keep a lot of knowledge in my head. Not on purpose, and not because I’m precious about it: it’s just hard work to get it out. Explaining something I know well, in a way that actually transfers, takes more effort than doing it myself. So it stays where it’s easiest to keep it: in…
People often ask me that, and the honest answer starts long before I had a name for any of this. I’ve been translating since I was a child: moving between languages, between symbols, between the ways different cultures choose to express the same idea. Long before I encountered the word semantics, I understood, instinctively, that…
Do you run your mind like you run your browser? Many tabs, all restoring on reopen? Do you ever have those moments where you have a realisation: the perfect thing to say, the perfect way forward, a solution to a problem you’ve been battling with? And do you find that they always come at the…
I recently found an article I published in 1999 in IngenierÃa QuÃmica, a journal for chemical engineers, about the internet. Reading it felt like receiving a letter from my younger self. The article warned that the real challenge wasn’t access to information. It was making information mean something. No perfect directory existed. No single index…
