Chronic entrepreneur. Co-founded https://xitter.cf/t.co/JyAyFAaCvK, https://xitter.cf/t.co/1NYs6GyvUV, https://xitter.cf/t.co/q28mjzgM8Y & 2 sons. Not necessarily in that order.
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Paris, Saturday. Yes, there was damage today. Yes, there was tension, but life went on. A thread from someone who walked through it, not someone watching it on a loop. 🧵
Which is exactly why I'm writing this down (from the unbroken side of the window) Two people could safely cross this sunny city today from the Bourse, Saint-Honoré, the Quartier Latin, Jardin du Luxembourg, Odéon and never be directly touched. That isn't denial. It's the part of the day no algorithm will show you.
Social media doesn't just report conflict, it amplifies it. Fear and chaos get the clicks, so fear and chaos are what you're fed on loop, from every angle. That changes our mental states. A scared electorate votes for the extremes to change their state. Please remember that before the next election. Love from Paris.
Shops hit: Monoprix, SFR, McDo, several sportswear around République. Later the Champs & Montaigne weren't spared either. Real damage for real shopkeepers, such as a family owned 3rd generation florist. However not a city in flames and that distinction matters.
Paris numbers tonight: ~110,000 marchers (~550.00 all over France). By 16h: 200 arrests (“only” 13 minors) and exactly one Paris resident. Most arrests were for reinforced gloves and balaclavas before anything happened. The looters seem to have been coming from outside, prepared and knew the “drill”.
If you're in Brussels, look up right now. Pink clouds over the whole city. Hope you're enjoying it as much as I am. This view makes it worth it working late at a customer.
How do we call this moment when you’ve maxed out some limits in your favourite LLM’s max subscription, but the incomplete task can wait a few hours.. and does not justify buying more capacity?
Reassuringly the printing & rolling of our “AI scripture” still needs a human in the loop too :) #AudienceFirst
This printing was in preparation of Sunday’s Book reveal.
If you're in Brussels and interested in Al, entrepreneurship and what it now takes to build something people actually want, I'd love to see you at Passa Porta Bookshop in the city centre at 11 AM.
I will present Audience First with a short reading, some lively debate and drinks afterwards. Co-author Olivier Verbeke will be present too to join the conversations.
Al can now build software solutions and platforms in hours. The harder question is: who are you building for?
PS: Please DM to confirm you presence.
Crazy to enjoy the transport model shift in Paris, where bike infrastructure now makes cyclists beat metro, uber and taxi on a sunny Thursday morning by travel time and cost:
Bike: 8 min
Uber/taxi: 18 min
Metro: 22 min
Walk: 29 min
#RegTech #RegTechDay
Morning booth setup in Düsseldorf with co-founder Tom 💪🇩🇪 at the Accounting Summit to present:
🇪🇺 e-invoice.be — Peppol infrastructure & integrations
🇩🇪 erechnungtesten.de — test multiple German e-invoice formats
📈 Peppolstatus.com — track growth, errors & uptimes across the global Peppol network
Come say hi at booth S13.