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I'll be honest with you. I wake up these days with a level of professional excitement I haven't felt in years. Not because things are easy. They aren't. Not because the technology is mature and stable. It isn't. But because right now, in this precise window of time, something is happening across the business world that only comes around once in a generation - and the companies that figure it out first are going to run away from the pack so fast that the ones who wait will spend years trying to close the gap. Every week, I talk to decision-makers - at banks, accounting firms, logistics companies, law offices, mid-sized manufacturers, family businesses that have been running the same way for thirty years - and I see the same thing everywhere: they know something is shifting. They can feel it. They just don't know exactly what to do about it yet. That uncertainty is not a weakness. It's where the opportunity lives.
Read articleIn my native Dutch, we have a saying: "Vijgen na Pasen"—literally, "figs after Easter." It refers to something that arrives far too late to be of any use. Today, on this Easter Monday 2026, as I look out over the Mediterranean from the Riviera, I find myself deeply concerned that Monaco’s AI strategy might become our own "vijgen na Pasen."
Read articleI spent twelve years building a recurring billing system for superyacht operators — multi-currency, multi-service, audit-trail-first. When I finally went independent, I knew exactly what I wanted to build next. This time, on my own terms.
Read articleThe craft hasn't disappeared — it's changed shape. Twenty-five years of building for the web, and the past six months have been more interesting than the previous five years combined.
Read articleThere have been two moments in my career when I genuinely felt I was standing at the edge of something infinite. The first was in the late 1990s. The web was young, the tools were primitive, and almost none of the problems had been solved yet. You could build something over a weekend, put it online, and it would reach people across the world. The sense of possibility was electric. Every morning I woke up wondering what we'd figure out today. The second moment is right now.
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