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  • Totalforsvar and Cybersecurity

    Cybersecurity is often portrayed as a technological problem, yet its most important component is neither software nor hardware—it is people. An informed user is one of the cheapest and most effective security measures an organization can implement. The same principle extends beyond organizations and into society itself, where resilience depends on the collective awareness of…

  • GitHub, Copilot, and Pulling the Plug

    GitHub’s pricing changes are not really a story about AI. They are a story about dependency. For years, developers embraced tools like Copilot because they made them more productive. But what happens when a critical capability is controlled by a third party? And what happens when that third party decides you are no longer profitable…

  • Open-Source Software and Sovereign Markets

    For years, regulation has been seen as a limitation on European technology. But what if sovereignty, privacy, and open-source infrastructure become competitive advantages instead?

  • Gruntwork and drafting monkeys

    We often talk about AI replacing jobs, but rarely about the value of the jobs we are trying to replace. Some of the most repetitive and unglamorous tasks in a profession are precisely the ones that build judgment, expertise, and institutional knowledge. In our rush to automate grunt work, we may be eliminating the very…

  • The Illusion of the AI Startup

    Many AI startups are not really building products—they are reselling access to someone else’s infrastructure. Without proprietary data, expertise, or a real differentiator, the business may be far more fragile than it appears.

  • BIM and Cybersecurity Are Built on Opposing Philosophies

    BIM and cybersecurity are built on fundamentally different philosophies. One depends on transparency and collaboration, while the other relies on compartmentalization and limited access. As infrastructure becomes increasingly digital, that contradiction may become one of the industry’s greatest vulnerabilities.

  • When Buildings Exist in Two Realities

    As infrastructure becomes both physical and digital, the risks we face are no longer confined to the visible world. BIM, CDEs, and data-rich models are expanding the attack surface of the built environment, forcing practitioners to rethink security as a core design responsibility.

  • BIM, IM, and the Real Challenge of ISO 19650

    The upcoming ISO 19650 revision might introduce conceptual shifts such as BIM becoming IM. But in practice, terminology matters less than contracts, adoption cycles, and the realities of industry implementation.

  • An army without soldiers: The Illusion of the AI Employee

    AI doesn’t eliminate the need for institutional knowledge. Replacing juniors with automation may boost short-term efficiency, but it destroys redundancy, weakens expertise, and risks long-term systemic collapse.

  • What we have is a money problem

    AI isn’t the root of the coming crisis. It’s an accelerant in a system already strained by middle-class decline and extreme wealth concentration. What we have isn’t a tech problem—it’s a money problem.