2025

On the post election Monday in Germany. Difficult results. I was reflecting on the Amazon Leadership

On the post election Monday in Germany. Difficult results. I was reflecting on the Amazon Leadership principle of ā€œDisagree and Commitā€ during my morning jog today. Recap of the principle (my paraphra…

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Another great feature based on GenAI released right on time. Easy language is a key feature to ensur

Another great feature — based on GenAI, per the team’s announcement — released right on time. Easy language is a key feature to help more readers keep up to date in those complex times. Absolutely thr…

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ā€œUPTIME? We don’t care - we’re a subscription business.ā€ This sounds wrong in so many aspects. Still it has some truth to it. Let me start with a disclaimer: It’s neither originated from a current or …

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🧳 On my way back from yesterday’s ā€œAmazon Ad Tech Summit 2025ā€ in Munich. Looking back at a packed day with loads of insights

🧳 On my way back from yesterday’s ā€œAmazon Ad Tech Summit 2025ā€ in Munich. Looking back at a packed day with loads of insights, new connections and reunion with dear colleagues. šŸ’” The takeaway from the…

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Last week I had the pleasure of joining Zalando and the Zalando account team at Amazon Web Services

Last week I had the pleasure of joining Zalando and the Zalando account team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) forĀ a joined community event. During the opening keynote it was coined as ā€œbringing re:invent …

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Only made it through 2 out of the 5 hours of this insightful podcast between Lex Fridman, Dylan Patel

Only made it through 2 out of the 5 hours of this insightful podcast between Lex Fridman, Dylan Patel and Nathan Lambert where the dive deep into Deep Seek’s AI model architectures, highlight and expl…

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šŸ‘€ Just watched the interview of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at WSJ Journal House Davos. Highly recommended!

šŸ‘€ Just watched the interview of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at WSJ Journal House Davos. Highly recommended! While obviously not mentioning any exact targeted launch dates for features, he gave some goo…

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I woke up with some loose ends in my mind about binary encoding and impacts on human life. Needed to

I woke up with some loose ends in my mind about binary encoding and impacts on human life. Needed to reflect on this: Binary encoding is powerful for computers, while binary thinking is limiting for h…

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Go ugly to be successful ?!

Go ugly to be successful ?! šŸŽÆ Just watched a fantastic TEDx talk by Prof. Martin J. Eppler about unleashing the power of visualization at work(available at YouTube: [1]). He outlines three Key Practic…

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LLMs for the rescue?! Or are we actually building Compound AI Systems?

LLMs for the rescue?! Or are we actually building Compound AI Systems? LLMs rule the world, right?! - Only thing what matters is using the most powerful LLM available and everything falls in place. Lo…

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