Search results for: "thinking building connected" Found 5 relevant passage(s) from hoeijmakers.net ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [1] "Vision, Judgement, Creativity: Reclaiming Agency in the Age of AI" URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/vision-judgement-creativity-reclaiming-agency-in-the-age-of-ai/ Tags: Future of Work, AI in Practice Published: 2026-02-20 Relevance score: 0.728 workflows. Certain forms of knowledge work will shrink, others will expand. The relationship between capital and labour will be renegotiated in subtle ways. Education will be forced to clarify whether it transfers information or cultivates judgement. None of this is apocalyptic. None of it is trivial. The real question is whether we approach this period as spectators or as architects. At an individual level, that means asking: How do I maintain depth of judgement when tools generate plausible answers instantly? How do I train attention and discernment rather than mere prompt fluency? How do I remain morally accountable in hybrid human-machine decisions? At a collective level, it means asking: What incentive structures do we reward? What forms of ownership and governance do we encourage? How do we prevent systemic fragility while embracing capability? These are not abstract policy debates. They are design questions embedded in companies, schools, professional communities, and families. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [2] "What coding with AI feels like now" URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/what-coding-with-ai-feels-like-now/ Tags: AI in Practice, Future of Work Published: 2026-01-18 Relevance score: 0.718 Notes from the edge of building with LLMs I am all in on large language models as cognitive amplifiers. I use them to think, to structure, to explore, to write. That part feels natural to me. What I have never been particularly drawn to is using them as coding tools. Programming has always felt like a different craft. Adjacent, interesting, but not where I naturally place my attention. And yet, over the past months, that boundary has become harder to ignore. Not because I suddenly wanted to become a developer, but because clients started asking different questions. They see headlines about “AI eating code”. They see demos racing past on LinkedIn. And they wonder whether they are missing something important. So I decided to explore. Not to reskill, but to orient myself. To understand what is actually changing, where agency now sits, and what is realistically accessible to people who are curious, but not intent on becoming software engineers. What follows is not a survey. It is a short f ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [3] "Review of "How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flyvbjerg" URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/review-of-how-big-things-get-done-by-bent-flyvbjerg/ Tags: #reviews Published: 2023-07-13 Relevance score: 0.698 While attending the MACH Conference in Amsterdam , June 2023, I was introduced to the book "How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flyvbjerg. Intrigued by its relevance to my professional endeavors, particularly in setting up an organization to promote digital literacy and managing various projects in my personal life, I eagerly immersed myself in its pages. Think Slow, Act Fast At the core of Flyvbjerg's book is the principle of "think slow, act fast." This concept resonated deeply with me, considering the complexity of the projects I'm involved in. It emphasized the importance of taking the time to deliberate, plan, and analyze potential challenges before executing actions. By doing so, I've discovered the value of informed decision-making, risk mitigation, and the ability to seize opportunities swiftly and efficiently. 💡 In "How to Get Big Things Done," Flyvbjerg vividly contrasts the experiences of two renowned architects, Jørn Utzon and Frank Gehry, in the creation of iconic architectu ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [4] "Intentional Power: Europe Between Negawatts and Realpolitik" URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/intentional-power-europe-between-negawatts-and-realpolitik/ Tags: Europe Published: 2025-06-09 Relevance score: 0.697 and electricity to run them. This is where the negawatt mindset starts to feel incomplete. Not wrong, just not quite enough on its own. We still need that focus on intention. But we also need the ability to scale and otherwise the ideas we care about don’t have anywhere to live. Strategic Materials: The Hidden Layer of Sovereignty There’s also the question of materials. A lot of the things we need, GPUs, EVs, wind turbines, depend on rare earths. And most of the world’s refining capacity is in China. Europe might shape policy, but we don’t mine the metals. That’s a dependency that’s hard to ignore if we’re serious about autonomy. Rare Earth Elements What If We Built with Intention and Capacity? This has led me to a question I keep coming back to: can we build systems that are both abundant and intentional? Not just more energy, but infrastructure that reflects how we want to live and work—supporting autonomy, resilience, and room to grow. Not everything needs to scale, but when it does ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [5] "ChatGPT Thinks With You. Claude Builds With You." URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/chatgpt-thinks-with-you-claude-builds-with-you/ Tags: AI in Practice, #claude, #chatgpt Published: 2026-03-27 Relevance score: 0.688 ChatGPT made me think better. Claude makes me build differently. That distinction took a few weeks of actual use to understand, and it's the reason I switched. With ChatGPT, the dynamic was cognitive support: a sharper search, a thinking partner, a way to process ideas faster. Useful, often excellent. But the work still lived with me. The tool assisted; I produced. Claude changed the direction of that relationship. The environment composes. Teaching, not prompting The mechanism is project files, CLAUDE.md files, and skills. You invest time once in explaining your context, your style, your workflow logic. The system holds it. Every subsequent session starts from that foundation rather than from scratch. That investment compounds. I have a skill for drafting posts on this blog, one for processing Schmuki meeting transcripts, one for bookkeeping in MoneyBird. Each encodes a workflow I would otherwise rebuild conversation by conversation. The result is consistency at a pace I couldn't sust