In the first two parts of this series, I described how LENS works as a personal knowledge system. Part 1 covered the core idea: a shift away from capturing everything and toward staying clear on what actually matters. Part 2 went into the mechanics: how information enters the system, why small notes beat long summaries, and why linking beats sorting. Both pieces deliberately left one question open: where does AI fit in? This is that piece. Read more »
LENS is the system I use to turn the flood of meetings, emails and documents in my day-to-day work into something I can actually act on. It grew out of my earlier attempt at a remeber everything system, once I realized that recall wasn't the bottleneck anymore. Decisions were. Read more »
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In Part 1, I walked through the core principles behind my decision-centric productivity system and the five layers it's built on: Home, Meta pages, Projects, Knowledge elements, and Logs. That structure is really just scaffolding, though. What makes it useful is what flows through it. In this post, I'll get into the mechanics Read more »
Modern leadership in many areas is no longer about managing systems. It's about managing interdependencies. At a certain level of complexity, the challenge shifts fundamentally: You don't essentially lack information (sometimes it can be even too much information). You don't lack tools - there are dozens of tools ready for your support You lack clarity under uncertainty. Read more »
This is My 200th Post. Actually it is number 202 if I counted correctly. Read more »
I sit in about 30-40 meetings a week. On top of that, dozens of emails land in my inbox every day, most of them repetitive, plain, admin-style stuff. Many don't creativity - it just needs to get done. Read more »
So far in my career, I’ve stepped into the role of department head three times. Each transition meant taking over a team and a set of processes I didn’t fully understand yet and each time, I learned a little more about where to focus in these critical first weeks. In my very first leadership role, I made some mistakes early on. I believed I had to lead primarily through technical excellence, setting the example by doing. But leadership isn’t simply a promotion. It’s a transformation. Read more »
I launched this site in fall 2023. Since then I've written almost 200 articles. That's more than I expected when I started. Initially the site was basically a stream: a new post went on top and old posts slided down ... Read more »
There's a quote I keep coming back to: In a world where you can be anything, be kind. I used to read it as a moral instruction. Now I read it differently. I think it's also just good advice. Read more »
For the last ten years, I’ve been involved in many projects - most of them with some kind of digitalization aspect. I’ve seen projects that worked really well. But I’ve also seen quite a few that were successfully implemented… only to be abandoned a few months later. That raises a simple question: Why do digitalization projects fail? Read more »