Shorter essays, garden observations, travel reflections, small system insights, and real-world experiments.
Almost two years ago, I started digging into a strip of soil everyone said could grow nothing but weeds and old roots. When I added sensors and asked AI to help me listen, the ground revealed its own logic, neither failing nor thriving, just slowly deciding whether to trust a human again.
Ownership feels empowering until it becomes a weight. The real work of a Product Owner is learning when to hold the vision and when to let the team carry it with you. Success is never built alone.
A roundtable in Bucharest surfaced a timely question: how do we scale trusted digital identity from isolated checks to shared infrastructure? Some evenings give answers; this one offered better questions.
A look back at Poland’s ecosystem reveals how community, pilots, and early funding helped turn local startups into global players, and why the model still matters today.
A visit to the Gyumri Technology Center revealed how a city rebuilt after tragedy by turning education and technology into a strategy, and why any city could follow the same blueprint.
