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Christo's clamps
In the summer of 1995, a team of professional climbers spent several weeks wrapping the Reichstag in 100,000 square metres of silvery polypropylene. The project had been planned fo…
ReadIn a World That Does Not Plan for You
Ingeborg Bachmann, 1926–1973: a woman who wanted to write as though writing were simply natural to her — and for whom it never quite was. That is not a lament. It is an observation…
ReadStanding on the Shoulders of Giants
The metaphor is borrowed. That is the first thing to say about it, because the borrowing is the point.
ReadTempus Fugit — and the Knowledge Leaves With It
A Roman mosaic says it in two words: tempus fugit. Time flies. The inscription reads as decoration until you stand in front of it long enough to feel its weight. I work at the ungl…
ReadWhy 'Structured Knowledge Access' Was the Killer Use Case Three VDMA Vendors Named
Every conversation I had at the VDMA roundup started from the same question: what should we automate? It is the wrong question. It sounds strategic but it skips a step. You cannot…
ReadChange Is How You Keep It
"He who refuses to change will lose even what he seeks to preserve." — Gustav Heinemann
ReadNobody plans to do pointless work. We do it anyway.
I woke up this morning with a full day of things to do. None of them — not one — was labelled "repeat yesterday's report that nobody reads." And yet, somewhere between nine and ten…
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