"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
In 1947, British-American poet W.H. Auden published The Age of Anxiety, a long poem subtitled “A Baroque Eclogue”. In a nutshell, four strangers meet in a bar on Third Avenue in Manhattan, on All Souls’ Night, so it's even seasonal, in the middle of a...
Every few months it comes back. A pencil drawing of a bee, a quote in a serif font, and different authorities invoked as the source: aerodynamically speaking, the bee cannot fly, but it doesn’t know that, so it flies anyway. It gets shared and liked,...
On outsourcing to AI agents without losing more than you gain Last week, I promised a colleague that, by the end of an article, she’d understand what everyone means when they say they “connected an AI agent to Revit via MCP”. I also promised she’d owe...
This week I was talking with a colleague about Agentic AI (no rest for the wicked, I know), and she was expressing a bit of frustration at some of the dynamics at play in the AEC industry, 'cause she's not a programmer and she claims...
I'm in Denmark, these days, at the International LEGO® Serious Play® Conference set up by IntHrface with co-creator Johan Roos, and I'll tell you all about it when I get back, but I wanted to follow up on what we saw last Wednesday about the...
From the why to the how The bricks have cooled down a little since my notes on day one, but my head and body are still very much in Billund. If the keynote was about the why (Human Magic, practical wisdom, keeping our judgment sharp in...
…and when I say they’re hot from the oven, I really mean it: I’m currently sitting at the bar of the Legoland Hotel in Billund, freshly changed and waiting for dinner (I know, it’s barely six, but it’s Denmark after all). I’ll probably do something...
I'm sure you've heard it, in some form or another: it's the famous Infinite Monkey Theorem, and it centres on the idea that, given an infinite amount of time and permutations, a monkey with a typewriter would be able to replicate the works of William...
A while ago, I was discussing with a good friend of mine, and we were talking about mandatory tutoring. You know? That situation when the company decides a group of people needs a certain skill, pays for a consultant to deliver the training, and then...
A few weeks ago, in one of those happy convergences of life, I was reading an Italian essay on Italo Calvino and artificial intelligence (I wrote about it here), and there's a very interesting set of passages that have to do with our contemporary obsession...
