Between China and Eastern Europe, Learning What Cannot Be Copied
Nobody announces the moment when the rules of a technological era change. It simply becomes apparent, usually too late, that the assumptions everyone was operating…
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The Skeleton Under the Floor – between d’Artagnan’s and how attend a concert without being there.
I came across a small journalistic footnote this week, the kind of item that appears briefly, generates no outrage, no think pieces, no panels, and…
The Shape of What Was Always Coming: How Systems Thinking and Structural Architecture Will Define the Next Era of Business, and Why Bulgaria Is Positioned to Lead It
Your strategy did not fail because your team was not smart enough. It did not fail because your data was insufficient, your consultants were underprepared,…
The Company That Refused to Disappear
There is a certain kind of company that history misremembers, not because it failed, but because it changed form too many times for the public…
Cliff Young, the Man Who Ran Like He Was Chasing Escaped Chickens, and What Europe’s New “EU Inc.” Should Learn from Not Knowing the Rules
If there were ever a patron saint of accidentally humiliating professionals, it would be Cliff Young. Cliff Young was not built like a champion athlete….
Mushroom, Mushroom, Mushroom
There is a pair of dragons on the crest of the iconostasis of the village church. Posed like cats clawing an armchair, they flank the…
The End of the Screen Era? Good. But Don’t Celebrate Yet.
There is something almost poetic about the moment we are living through. Apple, Meta, and OpenAI, three of the most powerful architects of our screen…
A PowerPoint in a fleece vest
This Monday brief starts with Zuckerberg of all people. Why start a money brief with Mark Zuckerberg defending Elon Musk’s massacre of Twitter staff. Because,…
THE ZORA PROTOCOL AKA The Awakening of the Danubian Destiny
PROTOCOL PREFACE: ON THE NATURE OF HISTORY AND KETTLES “The sleeper must awaken. But first, the sleeper must calculate the precise caloric intake of a…
Before the Heat Comes Up – How Nations That Learn to Distil Will Inherit the 21st Century
Every year in the Kazanlak Valley of central Bulgaria, around the first week of June, something happens that most of the world does not know…
It’s Happening, Europe Has Launched Its Defense Plan Against Chinese Cars
This Monday brief is a little different, less of a brief, more of a rant, not because I have suddenly developed a taste for confessional…
A Dance Forgotten, A Laugh Remembered
The yellow cobblestones of ulitsa Tsar Shishman were slick with rain, shining like wet amber under the streetlamps. The city was a familiar hum: trams…