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2026
- How Do Planes Actually Generate Lift?
TL;DR: Most of us were told that a wingās top is longer, so the air going over it has to speed up to meet the air underneath at the back edge, that faster air means lower pressure, and that this is liā¦
- You Remember Every Word. They Got 200 Messages.
TL;DR: You spent an hour on the message. They gave it four seconds, somewhere between message 87 and message 88 of their day. Then you waited, and in the silence you built a story: they read it, theyāā¦
- Ghost Stars: What a 4.0 Means in Germany
TL;DR: Of the Google Maps contributions removed across the EU for āillegal contentā from January to June 2026, almost 99.9 % concerned Germany, according to dpa. Under a 2022 ruling of Germanyās Federā¦
- One Side Rates, the Other Can't Answer
TL;DR: You gave it three stars. āIt was fine.ā To you that was an opinion, tapped out at a red light and forgotten by dinner. To the person on the other end it was a mark on a permanent, aggregated reā¦
- GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock: An Open-Weight Coding Model Behind a Managed API, Tested
TL;DR: GLM 5.3 from Z.ai is a mixture-of-experts coding model with roughly 750B total and about 40B active parameters, a 1M-token context and always-on reasoning, and it is now on Amazon Bedrock for eā¦
- More Than Technology: How Agentic AI Changes Minds, Culture, and the Way We Build
TL;DR: Once usable agentic technology is available, the bottleneck often lies in how people, culture and ways of working change. For individuals, the core skill shifts to defining good, giving contextā¦
- Can You Trust a Swarm's Reasoning?
TL;DR: When a collective of agents coordinates internally and a deployment surfaces only its final broadcast to you (a design I am positing to make the trust question concrete, not something the sourcā¦
- Why Does Ice Float?
TL;DR: Almost every solid is denser than its own liquid and sinks in it. Molten candle wax swallows the solid wax you drop into it. Water breaks the rule. When it freezes, hydrogen bonds pin each moleā¦
- The Door Only Locks Behind One of You
The Door Only Locks Behind One of You TL;DR: The same decision can be a two-way door for the person making it and a one-way door for the person it lands on. The decider can revisit, rehire, roll back;ā¦
- Four Talks, Four Rooms, One Question: Who Clicks Last?
dri TL;DR: In one week in Munich I gave four talks to four very different audiences: women building their careers at SAP and Amazon, observability engineers at Grafana, advertising agencies at a Wiesnā¦
