Potemkische Politik: Laut AGBs sind die meisten Dienste bis 13 ohnehin verboten, eine Erhöhung auf 14 bringt also nichts. Zudem: Grund für das Verbot ist, dass Jugendliche in der Pubertät besonders anfällig sind für Stereotype die über Social Media verbreitet werden. Das ist mit 14 nicht anders …

Short, but still extremely insightful piece by Simon Schmid (SkillLab) on unnecessary friction in the labor market: Even though interest is stakeholders are aligned, coordination between them is frail. Skills should become the lingua franca of the labor market: www.linkedin.com/pulse/labor-...

Ich kenne drei syrische Geflüchtete: eine Ärztin, die ein Jahr in der Firma meiner Frau gearbeitet hat um Deutsch zu lernen und nun im Krankenhaus arbeitet, einen Kollegen, der nebenbei eine eigene Firma gründete und eine Familie.

I could hardly imagine a better guest than Hans Rusinek for this episode of our newsletter Work/Code. As a "pracademic" who combines academic research and consulting, Hans has a very practical lense on AI and work but never misses the big questions workcode.substack.com/p/hans-rusin...

GitHub has a systematic approach to enhancing AI skills across the whole company. And their bottom-up approach means that teams decide how they want AI to help them. As a result, GitHub found that nearly every team has benefitted from AI. workcode.substack.com/p/matt-nigh-...

In recent weeks, there have been a lot of new model releases that make creative work much easier. That's why it's great that we have Cindy Richter of Lufthansa to speak to us at Work/Code about how AI changes the work of marketing teams workcode.substack.com/p/cindy-rich...

The next few episodes of our Work/Code newsletter focus on how companies can adapt AI. This is crucial to move beyond the prototype and explorative phase so I am really excited about today's interview with Lufthansa's Cindy Richter: workcode.substack.com/p/cindy-rich...

Our series on AI and the future of work continues with a conversation with Jonas Andrulis, founder of German AI firm Aleph Alpha. Jonas argues that a chatbot connected to your hard drive does not solve business problems. Context is king. workcode.substack.com/p/jonas-andr...

AI can boost your economy or destroy it. As a trained historian, I believe that looking into the past can help us navigate the present which I why I was grateful to be able to speak to Carl Benedikt Frey for our newsletter: workcode.substack.com/p/carl-bened...

I am honoured that C. B. Frey opens our first series of our new newsletter Work/Code in which we explore how AI impacts work. We delve deeply into the impact that AI has on labor markets! Please do subscribe to not miss our other conversations! workcode.substack.com/p/carl-bened...

This week, Markus Albers and I are starting a new newsletter exploring how AI shapes work. Each series, we are speaking to five great speakers as we aim to look beyond the attention-grabbing headlines and look at the quiet revolutions happening in the workplace. Subscribe here: workcode.substack.com

Over the past years, I developed my own habit on writing using the Zettelkasten system. It’s tedious, sometimes it’s frustrating and hurts. But Derek Thompson is right: if it hurts, it means you’re probably doing something right! open.substack.com/pub/derektho...

It can be hard to make sense of what AI means for work. In our upcoming newsletter, Markus Albers and I speak with leading thinkers to look behind the headlines and uncover the quiet revolution of AI .Want to join us for the ride? Subscribe now and don't miss an episode: lnkd.in/em3KNvyP

Ethan Mollick makes an interesting observation here: As new LLMs are more powerful and more opaque at the same time, how does that change how we work with them? This is what we explore in our newsletter workcode.substack.com. Subscribe now!

AI challenges the world of work as we know it. In our new newsletter Work/Code, Markus Albers and I speak to technologists, academics, creatives, workers, and mangers to look behind the headlines and uncover the quiet revolutions unfolding inside companies, economies, and countries. Subscribe now!

Carl B. Frey’s new book “How Progress Ends” gets a glowing review in the FT today. I am proud that Markus Albers and I were able to interview him for our upcoming newsletter series about AI and the future of work which starts in October. Subscribe here to read our interview workcode.substack.com

Today, the EU will publish its "strategic foresight report" which will discuss artificial general intelligence (AGI). But the Commission should not just focus on "superintelligence", but also "mass intelligence". danielflorian.substack.com/p/we-should-...

Looking forward to the reading, especially because of what’s to come this fall - stay tuned!

This is really getting out of hands ... It's like raiding Fiat because they put a Fiat motor into their car!

The AI plans of the UK, the EU and the U.S. signal a shift in the AI debate. But who will get an edge in AI-induced growth and what does this mean for AI safety? danielflorian.substack.com/p/i-have-a-p...

Smart move by Uber drivers!

I knew about the partnership between Google and _Firefox_ but didn't know it apparently expands to real 🦊: A couple of foxes find Google's rooftop garden in London so comfortable that they decided to live there (I guess there's also great food): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dobrindt. Macht schon am ersten Arbeitstag als Minister wieder Probleme ...

One and a half hours of sparring with my new consultant ChatGPT on the potential delay of the entry into force of the EU AI Act. The question itself does not even matter that much but it's interesting to see the chatbot learning about politics with me. If they recall our conversation ....

You want to go from Prague to Brussels by train? Or Brussels to Madrid? @europeansleeper.eu has issued a bond loan offer to support their expansion. Starts with loans of 1,000 EUR and includes a 20% discount because who does not like a discount? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Yes, European scale-ups need more money. But I doubt that an EU startup fund is going to do the trick. What would help is a harmonisation of EU financial markets and tapping into the savings of European citizens pro.politico.eu/news/199173

Quick question: Everybody seems to say that the OpenAI / Jony Ive collab is an attack to Apple. Why? Apple is not relevant in the AI space. I’d say it’s an attack on Google who run both an OS and corresponding hardware and amazing software. What’s your take?

LinkedIn promise:

We should really stop calling the EU a "colony" of US tech firms. Under the umbrella of colonialism, European powers have committed genocide and exploited whole continents and out of this historical responsibility, we should not self-victimize ourselves just because it "catchy". #POLITICOAITech

Wunderbarer Jahresempfang von @d-64.org mit @lenastork.bsky.social, Yasmin Fahimi, Prof. Judith Simon und @sveawindwehr.bsky.social 👉 Mitglied werden!

What a graph!

Good piece by @constelz.bsky.social on the state of the Conservatives in Germany; but I'd argue there's three camps: the populist Conservatives (driven by AfD), the Merkel Conservatives (did really well in elections) and Merz's traditionalists (underperformed in elections): on.ft.com/452n6hv

Very interesting @semafor.com post on the increasing influence of group chats - required reading for everyone interested in public opinion and public life: www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

Last week, an essay from @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social made the rounds called "AI as a normal technology". Read the whole essay if you can, but policy makers have little time, so I pulled out the main takeaways for legislators. Full text: knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

Ein lesenswertes Gespräch mit Kevin Kühnert über Spitzenpolitik, Macht und das Gefühl von Machtlosigkeit. www.zeit.de/2025/17/kevi...

@johnthornhill.bsky.social Do you think there is a case to be made that insurance increase might accelerate uptake of AI agents (think of Klarna, the Shopify memo) because agents don‘t pay insurance? That would probably be unintended by the government but still a possible outcome?

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." That's why I tried to incorporate an easy to update stakeholder management database to my personal productivity system in Notion. Here's how I do it: danielflorian.substack.com/p/a-better-w...

This was predictable: If you look at the Conservative's election results state by state, it's clear that there will be pressure to lean towards the right from East German PMs and to the left from West German PMs where the party did better than national average: www.politico.eu/article/frie...

Was? Merkel hat immer noch kein Porträt im Kanzleramt? Ich hab' da mal was vorbereitet:

What do Trump tariffs mean for the global economy and the balance of power? Excellent analysis by Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart: open.spotify.com/episode/4mBH...

Figure of the day:

Angesichts der geopolitischen Situation werden die Forderungen nach einem #EuroStack von digitalrelevanten Technologien lauter. Aber was hat es damit auf sich? Diese Woche im Newsletter. internetobservatorium.substack.com/p/aus-dem-in... #Digitalisierung #GlobalStack #DPI #DigitaleInfrastruktur

Cheat sheet for German coalition negotiations, chapter on digital transformation of the state:

Asked Grok about the likelihood of a "grand coalition" in Germany before Easter. This is just a part, but overall quite impressive. I think the 60-65% ratio primarily comes from the tight timeline and the AI did a pretty good job in weighing pros and cons for the case:

Imagine a company that is "too small to fail" because they can adapt more quickly and therefore fail less often? That is exactly the type of company Paul Jarvis has in mind in his book "Company of One":

Hello Bluesky Flashes!

We need to adjust policy to reality: When our Constitution is in danger, we cannot allow constitutional constraints to prevent us from raising the money that supports Europe's transformation into a self-sustaining power. Let's not reform the debt-brake, let's get rid of it: on.ft.com/4kmPGiX

Wo war denn die Antifa, als Lübcke ermordet wurde? Auf der Straße.

Niemand muss glauben, nur der Osten habe ein #Rechtsextremismus -Problem. Via @zeit.de

My quick take on the German elections: Friedrich Merz is the winner, but his party's results also show how he is vulnerable: danielflorian.substack.com/p/is-friedri...