All posts tagged: Work

An aerial view of several sailboats racing across open water, leaving white wakes behind them, with mountains framing the horizon.

Fair winds and following seas

Published by Trotzendorff

»A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.« For me as a sailor, that’s more than just a great quote. It’s almost a tru­ism. But as the son of a civ­il ser­vant, raised on sta­bil­i­ty and secu­ri­ty, in a fam­i­ly where per­ma­nent jobs and pre­dictable career paths were seen as the sen­si­ble way to do things, it’s also some­thing I didn’t live by for a long time.

Two women collaborate at a desk with a laptop in a bright workspace, surrounded by colorful sticky notes on a glass wall.

The Most Dangerous Thing About AI Might Be How Much Effort It Still Feels Like

Published by Trotzendorff

The first time I spent an entire after­noon work­ing with AI, I closed my lap­top with that strange­ly sat­is­fy­ing feel­ing of hav­ing done hard intel­lec­tu­al work. My brain felt cooked. I had com­pared mod­els, refined prompts, rewrit­ten out­puts, test­ed work­flows, chased bet­ter phras­ing, dis­card­ed entire approach­es. It felt intense. Dense. Productive.