Signals
My own reflections on a world in transition — written as ideas emerge, shared to spark conversation.
From Doing to Being: Reclaiming Presence in a Hyperactive World
In a world obsessed with speed and performance, we often forget how to simply be. This reflection explores the psychological traps of constant "doing" — and offers a doorway into presence and freedom.
Read the article →Artificial Intelligence in 2025: Opportunities, Limits, and Human-Centred Risks
AI is already shaping our everyday choices, jobs, education, and how we understand ourselves. A balanced exploration of promises, limitations, and risks — with a human lens.
Read the article →Cognitive Warfare: An Invisible Battle with Real Risks for Organisations
Cognitive warfare manipulates how people think, feel, and decide. For organisations, this creates serious psychosocial risks — and HR leaders must understand these dynamics.
Read the article →How AI Really Works — and Why It Is Not Like the Human Brain
AI does not think. It calculates. Understanding this difference — between statistical prediction and human understanding — is essential for using AI wisely and keeping humans accountable.
Read the article →Using AI and Not Becoming an Idiot
Systematic reliance on AI can bypass the mental effort that makes learning durable. What does AI do to our capacity to think — and how do we stay in charge of our own intelligence?
Read the article →AI Agents and the Future of Work
AI agents can now analyse, decide, execute and self-correct autonomously. As intellectual labour is redefined, what remains irreplaceable — and how do we reposition ourselves for 2030?
Read the article →What Is a Service Still Worth When AI Does Part of the Work?
For decades, selling an intellectual service meant selling time. AI is breaking that model. Through two cases — an AI-augmented consultant and an AI-augmented client — what clients really pay for now: judgement, direction and responsibility.
Read the article →Artificial Intelligence and the End of Work: Toward a Search for Meaning and a New Human Identity
For years, I led retirement workshops where the same question always came up: why get up in the morning? AI is about to ask all of us that question — and soon.
Read the article →Empathy at work: is it toxic?
Some now call empathy “toxic” or even a “sin”. The real problem is not empathy itself, but empathy that loses its balance through merging, fear or guilt, or that others use as leverage. A simple question helps to tell them apart: can I still say no?
Read the article →Digital Nomad at 60
Belgian, self-employed, and based in Southeast Asia for six months a year since Covid. Not retired, not on holiday — a personal account of a life built so that work and rest no longer need separating.
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