AI

AI’s Accelerating Horizon: Human Creativity and Conscious Stewardship

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence is evolv­ing at a breath­tak­ing pace, unlike any­thing human­i­ty has wit­nessed before. What makes this devel­op­ment espe­cial­ly remark­able is its self-reinforcing char­ac­ter: we are now using AI to design, opti­mize, and accel­er­ate the cre­ation of new AI solu­tions, appli­ca­tions, and tools. This feed­back loop is dri­ving inno­va­tion for­ward with extra­or­di­nary veloc­i­ty. The Rise of Vibe Cod­ing and the Democ­ra­ti­za­tion of Cre­ation Adding to this momen­tum is the emer­gence of

April 8, 2026

The Most Likely Future of AI: Embracing Its Weirdness Without Descending Into Chaos

Over the past few weeks, two thought­ful arti­cles cut through the relent­less AI hype and gave me pause for reflec­tion. In The Econ­o­mist, Ethan Mol­lick warned that “the IT depart­ment is where AI goes to die.” His point is sharp: AI is a pro­found­ly strange, risky, and pow­er­ful tech­nol­o­gy — a next-word pre­dic­tor that some­how writes code, offers strate­gic coun­sel, or even sim­u­lates empa­thy. Yet many orga­ni­za­tions are smoth­er­ing its poten­tial by

April 4, 2026
The Lull Before The Blockchain And AI Digitization Storm

The Lull Before The Blockchain And AI Digitization Storm

We tend to over­es­ti­mate the effect of a tech­nol­o­gy in the short run and under­es­ti­mate the effect in the long run”, the old adage by Roy Amara, was more than obvi­ous dur­ing Dif­fu­sion 2019, a 400+ devel­op­ers hackathon that took place in Berlin from 18–20 OCT 2019. Con­ver­gence, the coa­les­cence of today‘s hottest tech­nolo­gies, AI and Blockchain, was the theme of two days full of work­shops, talks, and, of course, hack­ing. My

Octo­ber 25, 2019
Michael Reuter becomes an advisor to Outlier Ventures

Work With And Learn From People Smarter Than You!

Asked about his recipe for suc­cess in busi­ness, Richard Bran­son once said he hired peo­ple bet­ter than him­self, have them embrace his vision, and let them work on it by them­selves. At a sig­nif­i­cant­ly small­er scale of suc­cess, I have applied his recipe since. And for our com­pa­nies Datarel­la, Baltic Data Sci­ence and the new­born RAAY RE this has worked out per­fect­ly. Now, I‘m hon­ored to become an advi­sor to Blockchain and AI

Octo­ber 16, 2019
Crossing the chasm - Bridging the gap

Crossing The Chasm — Building Bridges To Close The Gap

Yes­ter­day over lunch, we dis­cussed the lib­er­tar­i­an notion of essen­tial­ly get­ting rid of lega­cy com­plex­i­ty, such as leg­is­la­tion, reg­u­la­tion, etc. Some of the early pro­po­nents and cre­ators of cryp­tocur­ren­cies have expressed lib­er­tar­i­an world views by try­ing to leave the mon­e­tary sys­tem of cen­tral banks and hand over the power of money cre­ation to the peo­ple. Extreme views like this might seem promis­ing, but I pre­fer cross­ing the chasm and build­ing bridges

Jan­u­ary 5, 2019

GOOD READS

The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

What‘s our prob­lem?, Tim Urban

Rebel Ideas — The Power of Diverse Think­ing, Matthew Syed

Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

Jel­ly­fish Age Back­wards, Nick­las Brendborg

The Expec­ta­tion Effect, David Robson

Breathe, James Nestor

The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb

The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

Sim­ple Rules, Don­ald Sull, Kath­leen M. Eisenhardt

Mit Igno­ran­ten sprechen, Peter Modler

The Secret Lan­guage of Cells, Jon Lieff

Evo­lu­tion of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cyn­thia L. Haven

Grasp: The Sci­ence Trans­form­ing How We Learn, San­jay Sara

Rewire Your Brain , John B. Arden

The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof

The Way of the Ice­man, Koen de Jong

Soft Wired — How The New Sci­ence of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Can Change Your Life, Michael Merzenich

The Brain That Changes Itself, Nor­man Doidge

Lifes­pan, David Sinclair

Out­live — The Sci­ence and Art of Longevi­ty, Peter Attia

Younger You — Reduce Your Bioage And Live Longer, Kara N. Fitzgerald

What Does­n’t Kill Us, Scott Carney

Suc­cess­ful Aging, Daniel Levithin

Der Ernährungskom­pass, Bas Kast

The Way We Eat Now, Bee Wilson

Dein Gehirn weiss mehr als Du denkst, Niels Birbaumer

Denken: Wie das Gehirn Bewusst­sein schafft, Stanis­las Dehaene

Mind­ful­ness, Ellen J. Langer

100 Plus: How The Com­ing Age of Longevi­ty Will Change Every­thing, Sonia Arrison

Think­ing Like A Plant, Craig Holdredge

Das Geheime Wis­sen unser­er Zellen, Son­dra Barret

The Code of the Extra­or­di­nary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani

Altered Traits, Daniel Cole­man, Richard Davidson

The Brain’s Way Of Heal­ing, Nor­man Doidge

The Last Best Cure, Donna Jack­son Nakazawa

The Inner Game of Ten­nis, W. Tim­o­thy Gallway

Run­ning Lean, Ash Maurya

Sleep — Schlafen wie die Profis, Nick Littlehales

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