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The End Of The Average

Artificial Intelligence hasn’t merely automated mediocrity—it has exposed the irrelevance of the average in today’s marketplace.
Jens Koester 14 Jan 2026
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A 60-Year Career To Stop Worrying And Love The Office

We have not fully acknowledged the reality we are creating: a society where retiring becomes increasingly difficult to achieve.
Jens Koester 14 Jan 2026
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Why Organizations Still Plan Like It Is 1965

The core issue may not be improving plans, but the fact that planning itself—as inherited from the industrial age—is now fundamentally ill-suited to today's ever-changing world.
Jens Koester 13 Jan 2026
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The Mathematics of Trust

In 2026, technological advances mean that the human eye can no longer be trusted. Deepfakes are so convincing that they cannot reliably be separated from genuine media, even by experts.
Jens Koester 13 Jan 2026
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Freedom Or Commitment?

In a world shaped by AI and countless evolving options, can we truly dedicate ourselves to anything?
Jens Koester 12 Jan 2026
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The Resistance of the Hand

Digital tools don't just assist thinking—they transform our cognitive habits, training us into algorithmic patterns of auto-completion and passive acceptance.
Jens Koester 12 Jan 2026
A data center at night. In the center aisle, two distinct, advanced autonomous algorithmic entities face each other. Between them stands a single human executive holding a coffee cup.

The Agentic B2B Sales Economy

When commerce becomes fully automated between machines, we are not simply optimizing transactions—we are fundamentally altering the essence of commerce itself.
Jens Koester 12 Jan 2026

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