Writing
Essays and notes on technology leadership, logistics, AI, and the craft of running global engineering organizations.
What Is the Best Recognition You Can Get Working in IT?
We spend so much time discussing technology internally. Getting to speak directly with a customer and seeing them excited about what we can build together feels special.
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On My Way Back to Hamburg from Bangkok 🇹🇭✈️🇩🇪
Reflecting on meeting our global Airfreight leadership team in Bangkok and seeing AI adoption driven from the Board level.
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I Was Never Great at Remembering macOS Terminal Commands
Lately, I’ve found a much more natural way to work with the terminal: just talk to it.
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The Trains Were Never the Constraint. The Track Is.
We measure technical debt religiously. Almost nobody measures adoption debt — the gap between what we've built and what the organisation has truly absorbed.
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Moin from Hamburg
On becoming a Wahl-Hanseat and learning the Hamburg way: no fuss, reliability, and a cool head when the wind blows.
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Rebasing in the Barber Queue
No time wasted: getting the beard done and rebasing a feature branch from the queue.
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Executive Compression is Real, And I’m Experiencing It Firsthand
AI tools are letting one experienced leader with deep domain knowledge deliver far more without the old management layers in between.
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Positively exhausted. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Reflecting on the unexpected success of our global AI Hackathon at Kühne+Nagel and the power of empowering operations teams.
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Déjà vu on my feed: Agile vs AI
The debate around AI methodologies feels exactly like the old debates about Agile. It's time to stop debating and start shipping.
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Cooperation Isn't Soft Leadership. It's the Dominant Strategy.
After 15 years in large enterprise IT, I keep seeing the same misunderstanding about escalation and cooperation.
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Vibe Coding Is Fun. Agentic Coding Is Powerful.
In 2026, we don't "write" software the way we used to.
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1.5 Million AI agents were hijacked this week... because of a "vibe."
OpenClaw aka Moltbook was supposed to be the "front page of the agent internet"
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