The Fourteen-Billion Dollar Copy-Paste: A Digital Transformation Tragedy
Or: Why the Republic of Meridiana Has the World’s Most Advanced System for Doing Nothing In March 2021, the Republic of Meridiana achieved something remarkable….
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IT’S MONDAY – January 5th
A weekly digest – part serious, part not – in partnership with The Sofia Globe Happy New Year to New York, London, Paris, Sofia! I…
End-of-the-year digest – THE BOX IS THE BOX
A weekly digest – part serious, part not – in partnership with The Sofia Globe “Mirror, mirror on the digital wall, who is the truthful…
The Grand Illusion: How Brussels Became a Museum and Why Bulgaria Might Be the Future
The Greeks had a word for it: hubris – the belief that mortals could achieve what only gods should attempt. In Brussels, where the towers…
The tree in wind
Watch a tree in windstorm. Really watch. The wind comes hard—the kind that snaps rigid things, that topples what won’t bend. But the tree doesn’t…
THE WAY OF THE RATCHÉ SEAGAL
There are certain things the universe does not intend you to take seriously, and one of them is a rat in a tiny black headband…
The AI Dividend of Labor and UBA: The Future of Work Is Not Work, But a Productivity Balance
You will find the full paper including the mathematical appendix at this link I wrote this piece because I kept having the same conversation with…
Conversation with Stella Petkova: AWWWARDS Juror on Design, Discipline, and Finding Balance
It’s the last days of October, a day before a major event, and with all the stress swirling around me, I’ve decided—on top of everything—to…
What Steve Jobs’ Creative Director Taught Me About Building Bulgaria’s Creative Future
Ten years ago in Bogotá, I shared a stage with Ken Segall at a marketing conference. Ken is the man who named the iMac and…
The Pattern Blindness
I spent two years writing a book about acceleration. As a futurist, I thought it was time to put my thoughts on paper, but here’s…
Bulgaria’s Path Forward: Learning from Patterns, Not Places
When a former foreign minister recently told me that “those who have power have no imagination and those with imagination have no power,” I realized…
Circles of Identity: A Conversation with Natanail Stefanov
How choosing constraint created freedom — and why betting on Bulgaria is a bet on possibility. The Paradox of Choice Most stories end with tears….