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Scratch

Contrast as anchor

Math is not the hardest thing of AI

Web 2.5

10x innovation

The potential to simplify cloud

Excel is a whiteboard.

Crowdsourcing truth

From flowchart to app

The emergence of legacy commerce

Buttons are back

Regulation tipping point

Chaining bots

McKinsey’s 18 future arenas of competition

Paradox of regulation

Attio is coming

Actual valuable work

Service business toolmaking

The AI assisted design sprint

The new magic subscription price anchor

The fox and the hedgehog

4 stages of career contribution

Overworking the dough

Tech pessimism in mainstream

The next opportunity lies in information consolidation.

Paradox of price and value

Paradox of capitalism and happiness

How Bolt is surpassing Uber

The marketing of open source SaaS

What happened to TED?

Doored room principle

Ever higher expectations from our tools

Digital escapade

Nuclear commercial drive

Flexible rules

Noticing good questions

PHP moment

Inspiring optimism from SpaceX

Offshoring agency work

Europe’s five stages of grief

Million dollar freelancers

European cloud trend

Building in public momentum

The innovation overshoot in electric vehicle transition

The risk of the everything app

The copilot wars

Positioning statement

The web as an OS

Remarkably low prices of copilots

Speak your clients’ language

The allure of productivity systems

Rebranding safety to manliness

Digital public property

The unintuitiveness of defining problems

Platform word-inflation

Free forever business model

Quiet vacationing

Chatbot dip

What’s next for e-commerce

Acting like an owner

Latent vs blatant problems

Optimism shift

The commodification of e-commerce

Most software is not a tech problem

Excel is a whiteboard

The manufacturing clock mindset

Sentry’s mandatory innovation contract

The market opportunity for selling hardware AI servers

Barefoot Development

Adidas and Puma

Swedish Tech Wave

How Raycast standardises native Mac design of plugins

The downfall of the headless

AI is a catch-all term

Idea: Presentable doc builder

Stuck app pricing model

SetApps business model

The nostalgia harware hop

What is luxury digital?

macOS & iPadOS

The enduring files and folders paradigm

Opportunity for open source companies

Mid market valley of death

Paying for professional tools

The LinkedIn - Mastodon - Twitter vacuum

Dominating from the start

The search for content business model

Time for a more advanced iPad UI

CSS’ comeback

The year for on-device AI

Disproportionate value of digital companies

What happened to the jawbone proposition?

Programming syntax is beginning

Shiny new toy syndrome

The IT distrust problem

Making incremental sexy

Social climate change

Paperlike tech

Developer target market

Multiple discovery

Amateurs vs experts

Compress complexity, don’t layer

Mintzberg cycles of organisational change

The illusion of data perfectionism

The curious thing about speed

Thee Mile Island design

Price finding strategy

Hero ingredients

Co-created brilliance

Marketing as a reminder

Product information authorities

Bard

Carry-ons

My corporation

Brands as political identity

Influence of stories and fake transparency

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