
A newsletter for builders and leaders navigating uncertainty. On AI, organizations, focus, and the harder questions about technology and human flourishing. By Malte Wagenbach. Limited founding member spots available—get lifetime savings when you join now.
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Western coverage of China’s AI development tends toward two extremes: ‘China is about to surpass us on everything’ and ‘Chinese AI is derivative and overhyped.’ Both are wrong. Here is what is actually happening, and why it matters for deci...
The most important strategic question in business right now is not ‘how do we use AI?’ It is ‘what will still be defensible in three years?’
Software differentiation is collapsing. The code that used to take months and cost millions can be...
The Setup
Claude Code handles all architectural thinking. It has my full organizational context loaded: CLAUDE.md files for every project, the knowledge base, the project database, the skills library. When I start a development task, Claud...
I am going to do something most career advice avoids: be honest about which skills are being made obsolete, which are becoming more valuable, and what the transition actually requires.
I will go role by role. I will not tell you ‘AI augmen...
Everyone is arguing about which AI model is best. GPT-5.4 versus Gemini 3.1 Pro versus Claude Opus 4.6. Benchmark scores. Elo ratings. Context window sizes. Inference speeds.
I want to tell you why this argument mostly doesn’t matter — and...
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Malte Writer. Systems thinker. Building at the intersection of climate, technology, and human flourishing. Based between Berlin and Istanbul.
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