We Keep Signing for Systems Nobody Can Read Anymore

In a single week a regulator, a grid body, an auditor, a hospital and a lab each discovered they could not read a system they are accountable for and ordered the reading after it was already running. Mark van Rijmenam on why accountability has outrun comprehension and the call no board may delegate.

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The Friction We Keep Removing Is What Makes Us Human

A wage comparison, a legal definition, a procurement framework and a clinical clearance closed four open questions, and none was decided by an invention. Each one removed a friction. There is a Dutch saying, wrijving geeft glans. Friction gives shine, and it is the one input no balance sheet prices.

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The Future of Keynotes: What Will Still Matter in 2030

We've entered an era where intelligence is abundant and judgment is scarce, and that single fact is rewriting every assumption the speaking industry has operated on for decades. We now live in a world where anything can be generated by anyone at any given moment. What will command attention in 2030?

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AI Just Became the Method, Not the Microscope

A software company that never owned a lab has decided to make its own medicines. For four centuries, better science meant a sharper microscope. Now AI is becoming the method itself, and much of that method is privately owned. The prize: curing the incurable. The price: knowledge that arrives owned.

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