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Strategic Technology · February 25, 2026 · 5 min read

The Much-Prophesied "SaaSpocalypse"

AI is doing two separate things to SaaS at the same time: making it easier to build your own, and harder to compete with the established players.

This Month in Tech: January 2026

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Build It and (Maybe) They Will Come

Building something is the easy part. Building the right thing, for the right people, at the right time -- that's where most of us keep getting it wrong.

This Month in Tech: December 2025

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A Company's Goal Is Not to Make (Its) People Happy

If I had to pinpoint the most significant opinion change in my leadership career, it's that a responsible business can't and shouldn't be driven by how it makes its employees feel.

This Month in Tech: November 2025

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Unpopular Opinion: Flat Hierarchy Doesn't Really Work

After a decade of advertising flat hierarchy as a perk, I took it off every job ad. This is what I learned about why it sounds great and fails in practice.

This Month in Tech: October 2025

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Mantra: Do things first, relax later

Procrastinating feels like borrowed time until the brain catches up and ruins the break too.

This Month in Tech: September 2025

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Mantra: Be the one on the solution side of things

Once me and my team had to mediate a service integration between a high profile client and an eager third-party service by guiding both teams to develop whateve...

This Month in Tech: August 2025

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Making the Most of Hyperfocus

Hyperfocus is a superpower with a short fuse. The trick is to use it for breadth, not depth, and let the depth come later.

This Month in Tech: July 2025

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The hardships of being an Entrepreneur

A student from Standford reached out to me about a project called "How to inspire the next generation to succeed the hard way", which got me thinking about what...

This Month in Tech: June 2025

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Onboarding: First impressions matter

Getting someone on board of an organization or team is the first time we are able to set a benchmark, and this one will stick with them for a while. Not only th...

This Month in Tech: May 2025

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Splitting Planning Mode from Production Mode

Most of the time the hardest part of any task isn't the task itself -- it's starting. Separating planning from execution makes the barrier to start almost disappear.

This Month in Tech: April 2025

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Grinding more than anyone else is not enough

I am a very late bloomer and finding my path took a lot of time. Not necessarily effort, just time. I was already in my late 20s when I decided it was time to f...

This Month in Tech: March 2025

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Your Company is viewed as a Product for your employees

Companies meticulously craft Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) to identify and target their perfect clientele. This strategy helps businesses align their products...

This Month in Tech: February 2025

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How to make sure you are leaving nothing at the table? Be your own auditor or coach

For the past 15 years I have made the sole purpose of my awake time to be as productive and competent as possible, to keep pushing towards my goals one inch at...

This Month in Tech: January 2025

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Team Culture: The Dos and Don'ts

I built the culture I wanted to work in. It attracted incredible people, created something I'm still proud of, and nearly killed the business.

The Roadmap to a team's excellence: Retention

At the heart of this expedition lies a crucial milestone: retention. Keeping talented individuals engaged, motivated, and committed is not just about maintainin...

The Peace Time Checklist

After a decade of putting out fires, the pandemic forced me into an unexpected calm. I had no playbook for peace time, so I built one.

Weekly Mantra: Don't let your guard down

If not on all the Mantras around here, at least most are focused on maximizing productivity, quality and progress. There is one thing that can consistently, time...

LLMs: The Gist

Large Language Models (LLMs), one of the most popular acronyms of 2023, are incredibly advanced language wizards in the digital world. Just like magic, LLMs und...

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence: The gist of it

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the development of computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. It involves creatin...

Weekly Mantra: Once a day, do something that you REALLY don't feel like doing

There is a specific part of our brain called Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex acting as our very own "tenacity muscle". Apparently, this section of the brain contr...

The Roadmap to a team's excellence: Defining the Team roster

Hopefully by now we are aware of the context our team is to be built around and it's time to put the wheels in motion. The absolute first step is figuring out...

Weekly Mantra: Plan the s**t out of everything

I'm always juggling too many balls. Between career objectives, day-to-day job demands, family, health, learning, hacking, hobbies and even this blog thing, I fo...

This Month in Tech: May 2024

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The trough of disillusionment - Blockchain and AI

The Gartner Hype Cycle is a visual representation of the phases that emerging technologies "typically" undergo. In very rough strokes, it all begins with a "Tec...

This Month in Tech: April 2024

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The Roadmap to a team's excellence: Knowing the context

The "Roadmap to a team's excellence" is (going to be) a series of very opinionated (as everything else here) why, when, how, do and don't's to achieve, or at le...

This Month in Tech: March 2024

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Weekly Mantra: Discipline and Persistence - This is the way

It's something I tell myself every single day, and in all transparency, not something I achieve every single day. As everyone I also have bad days, bad stretche...

This Month in Tech: February 2024

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Roadmap towards AGI

As much as AI is already changing to a great extent many different industries, there is still a (possible) long road ahead towards achieving a first res...

This Month in Tech: January 2024

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Daily, Weekly and Monthly planning

Planning and re-planning my days (and life in general) is a constant ongoing process. Just like managing teams or a business, the circumstances around me change...

This Month in Tech: December 2023

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Weekly Mantra: Either stick to the plan, or make a better one

I can't remember a time where I haven't been juggling more balls than those I could handle, and I'm sure there is also a lesson here somewhere. Keeping the bala...

This Month in Tech: November 2023

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Attention (as a service) is All You Need

Going "all the way back" to 2017, to Google's groundbreaking paper titled Attention is All You Need where we got first introduced into a novel neural network ar...

This Month in Tech: October 2023

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Weekly Mantra: Don't overthink, just do it

Some time ago one of the engineers in my development team reached out to me to talk about his productivity. More concretely, he wasn't happy with how he was han...

This Month in Tech: September 2023

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Journaling for a sped up brain

Intro The biggest driver in content within this blog is my personal need to document many of my thoughts and realizations. The fact that it's public is (of cou...

This Month in Tech: August 2023

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