Nineteen Years Inside a Sociocratic SMB
Five years in, I realised I was the bottleneck of my own company. This is what changed when I got out of the way.
Start here
Forty-odd posts is a lot. These are the ones I would hand you first, depending on what brings you here.
If you run an SME
The €300 Subscription Tax
Forty-six recurring charges on one bank statement, fifteen people on the payroll. Cold accounting of an SMB stack, and the 80-line Python script that quietly replaces half of it.
Sovereign by Default
An SMB's first sovereignty question is not where the data is hosted. It is whether the company can still operate on Monday if the vendor disappears on Friday.
The Tax Labyrinth
Five portals, three login systems, one self-employed citizen. France's tax infrastructure is not buggy. It is obsolete by design. Field notes on the cost.
Never Tell Them the Answer
I started running Advanced Dungeons & Dragons at fourteen, in a village youth club in the Yvelines, with three hardbacks in a language I did not have yet. It turned out to be the only facilitation training I ever received.
On AI
Vibe Orchestration
Most people chat with AI. A few direct it. What changes when you stop being an operator and start conducting.
The Expert's Paradox
If you need to be an expert to verify what the AI says, you don't need the AI. The paradox that quietly defines AI use in 2026.
Prompts Are Dead, Long Live Direction
The prompt engineering era is over. What replaces it isn't a better prompt. It's the room the prompt sits inside.
Deploying GenAI Without Breaking GDPR
A leader freezes a working AI project out of fear of GDPR and the AI Act. The three texts are not three walls. They ask, in three vocabularies, the same four operational questions.
Standing Watch
A daily security watch that runs itself: a swarm of local agents, a Kanban board, and a background task wired into a one-person SOC. A Vibe Orchestration field report.
Indie hacking and the Small Web
Author, Not Product
I deleted my LinkedIn, MALT and APEC accounts this morning. This site is what I built instead.
The Boring Stack
SQLite, Markdown files, Python standard library. After a quarter-century in the trade, why the most experienced CIOs are also the hardest to impress.
The Slow Feed
RSS never died. It just stopped being interesting to anyone trying to monetize your attention. That is precisely the point.
Why I Build on Astro
A field report after a few weeks on Astro v6. What worked, what bit me, why it fits the Small Web.