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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 08/10/2025

GitHub has a systematic approach to enhancing AI skills across the whole company. And their bottom-up approach means that teams decide how they want AI to help them. As a result, GitHub found that nearly every team has benefitted from AI. workcode.substack.com/p/matt-nigh-...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 06/10/2025

In recent weeks, there have been a lot of new model releases that make creative work much easier. That's why it's great that we have Cindy Richter of Lufthansa to speak to us at Work/Code about how AI changes the work of marketing teams workcode.substack.com/p/cindy-rich...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 01/10/2025

AI can boost your economy or destroy it. As a trained historian, I believe that looking into the past can help us navigate the present which I why I was grateful to be able to speak to Carl Benedikt Frey for our newsletter: workcode.substack.com/p/carl-bened...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 29/09/2025

This week, Markus Albers and I are starting a new newsletter exploring how AI shapes work. Each series, we are speaking to five great speakers as we aim to look beyond the attention-grabbing headlines and look at the quiet revolutions happening in the workplace. Subscribe here: workcode.substack.com

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 21/09/2025

It can be hard to make sense of what AI means for work. In our upcoming newsletter, Markus Albers and I speak with leading thinkers to look behind the headlines and uncover the quiet revolution of AI .Want to join us for the ride? Subscribe now and don't miss an episode: lnkd.in/em3KNvyP

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 15/09/2025

Ethan Mollick makes an interesting observation here: As new LLMs are more powerful and more opaque at the same time, how does that change how we work with them? This is what we explore in our newsletter workcode.substack.com. Subscribe now!

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 12/09/2025

Carl B. Frey’s new book “How Progress Ends” gets a glowing review in the FT today. I am proud that Markus Albers and I were able to interview him for our upcoming newsletter series about AI and the future of work which starts in October. Subscribe here to read our interview workcode.substack.com

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 01/08/2025

Looking forward to the reading, especially because of what’s to come this fall - stay tuned!

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 31/07/2025

This is really getting out of hands ... It's like raiding Fiat because they put a Fiat motor into their car!

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 23/05/2025

Quick question: Everybody seems to say that the OpenAI / Jony Ive collab is an attack to Apple. Why? Apple is not relevant in the AI space. I’d say it’s an attack on Google who run both an OS and corresponding hardware and amazing software. What’s your take?

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 01/05/2025

Last week, an essay from @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social made the rounds called "AI as a normal technology". Read the whole essay if you can, but policy makers have little time, so I pulled out the main takeaways for legislators. Full text: knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 26/04/2025

Ein lesenswertes Gespräch mit Kevin Kühnert über Spitzenpolitik, Macht und das Gefühl von Machtlosigkeit. www.zeit.de/2025/17/kevi...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 21/04/2025

@johnthornhill.bsky.social Do you think there is a case to be made that insurance increase might accelerate uptake of AI agents (think of Klarna, the Shopify memo) because agents don‘t pay insurance? That would probably be unintended by the government but still a possible outcome?

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 15/04/2025

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." That's why I tried to incorporate an easy to update stakeholder management database to my personal productivity system in Notion. Here's how I do it: danielflorian.substack.com/p/a-better-w...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 08/04/2025

Was? Merkel hat immer noch kein Porträt im Kanzleramt? Ich hab' da mal was vorbereitet:

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 13/03/2025

Cheat sheet for German coalition negotiations, chapter on digital transformation of the state:

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 05/03/2025

Asked Grok about the likelihood of a "grand coalition" in Germany before Easter. This is just a part, but overall quite impressive. I think the 60-65% ratio primarily comes from the tight timeline and the AI did a pretty good job in weighing pros and cons for the case:

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 02/03/2025

Imagine a company that is "too small to fail" because they can adapt more quickly and therefore fail less often? That is exactly the type of company Paul Jarvis has in mind in his book "Company of One":

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 27/02/2025

Wo war denn die Antifa, als Lübcke ermordet wurde? Auf der Straße.

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 20/02/2025

Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass Roman Herzog mit seinem „Ruck“ nicht die Abschaffung der Gewaltenteilung oder das Ignorieren von Völkerrecht meint. Ich schätze Koeppen, aber was geht in solchen Köppen (pun intended) vor?

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 18/02/2025

From Paul Krugman. But guess what: the government also says you need to attend school. So is compulsory schooling the next target of the anti-science movement?

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 18/02/2025

Europe has lots of challenges. I appreciate that Merz wants a more active role for Germany and I still have my doubts whether he is the right man for these times. But not because someone thinks he looks like Mr Burns … you can do better!

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 13/02/2025

EP encourages staff to use encrypted messaging service. That's great. But just make sure you don't weaken encryption in your next legislative proposal ...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 27/01/2025

Yet another thought-provoking short stoy in Jack Clark's newsletter: will we even realize th date of the "last game" of humans v. machines? importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 21/01/2025

Interesting article by @gideonrachman.bsky.social: But if people vote for strongmen in protest against a "self-centred elite" as an expression of the "will of the people", what makes them confident that he will return to a balance of power? Didn't even work in ancient Rome! on.ft.com/3E0cOTV

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 21/01/2025

And so do I! 🍷 Good morning everyone!

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 20/01/2025

The last thing I expected is for Trump to take on Sergey Lagodinsky's idea to nationalise TikTok. Maybe at least the other 50% could be taken over by the EU? 😅

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 15/01/2025

The UK 🇬🇧 just published its "AI Opportunities Action Plan" that contains both similarities (e.g. on developing national champions) and differences (a sectoral rather than horizontal approach to regulation) to the EU 🇪🇺 . Here's what the EU should copy: danielflorian.substack.com/p/what-the-e...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 14/01/2025

Didn't get that: Keir Starmer saying he needs AI to make public service more ... human wouldn't go down well with me if I was a public servant ... I did read the AI Opportunities Plan though and jotted down some initial thoughts about what the EU can learn: danielflorian.substack.com/p/what-the-e...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 09/01/2025

2025 will be the year of "AI agents": And while AI agents are unlikely spell doom for traditional SaaS companies, agents will certainly change the SaaS market. Here are some initial thoughts on the overlap between AI agents and legacy SaaS and how EU lawmakers might think about this lnkd.in/eN-qXd2N

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 06/01/2025

This is a false narrative, too. Firms like Aleph Alpha are not struggling because of regulations but product decisions. And how preposterous to believe that EU founders are too stupid to make up their minds themselves …

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 19/12/2024

A few years ago, I shared my personal productivity system and it seems that many people liked it. This autumn, I have turned the thing from a calendar-based system to a data-based system in @notion.com. Here's how the magic works: danielflorian.substack.com/p/my-persona...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 18/12/2024

I say with full confidence: The solution to the problems with TikTok is NOT to create a European version of TikTok! 🙄

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 07/12/2024

Scholz: "A phone call with Putin seems like a great idea to boost my poll ratings ..." Macron: Hold my beer ...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 07/12/2024

Macron‘s Presidency may be shaky, but he is a skillful manager of „strongmen“ like Donald Trump, finds Hans Kribbe in my recent interview with the author: open.substack.com/pub/danielfl...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 04/12/2024

📚 Dreading the holiday news slump? Take some time to read a book! And to help you pick a really good one, I wrote down my 2024 book recommendations, covering foreign policy, economics, AI, personal growth and more! danielflorian.substack.com/p/what-i-rea...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 26/11/2024

⭐ EU laws "increase risk for start-ups (...) [wich] makes it harder to do a radically new thing that could create a superstar firm." 🦋 Competition in social networks should be welcomed, but Bluesky apparently violate European law. What will they do? Hire an auditor or geo-block the EU?

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 22/11/2024

"Donald and Elon can't get enough of each other", POLITICO wrote today. Yesterday, I spoke with Hans Kribbe about what this might mean for EU tech policy: danielflorian.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 20/11/2024

🚀 What impact will Musk’s bromance with Trump have on the EU’s tech policy? I spoke with Hans Kribbe, author of "The Strongmen" on the geopolitics of tech. To read the interview tomorrow, subscribe to my free newsletter here: www.danielflorian.de

Hans Kribbe: "If you want to be autonomous, you've got to create the economic conditions that allow industries to thrive and survive in Europe."

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 11/11/2024

There's a new Substack in town: Starting tomorrow, I will write comprehensive analyses and editorials on EU digital policy and its impact on mid-sized firms. To receive my first post tomorrow a.m. Subscribe here ➡️ danielflorian.substack.com

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 03/11/2024

That's actually quite funny, ChatGPT 🤣

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Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 31/10/2024

After 7 years, my time at Dropbox ended in this week's layoff. Grateful for amazing colleagues who made work human & allowed me to grow while working on AI, copyright & digital sovereignty. Taking time to recharge before looking out for my next challenge in tech policy. Onwards!

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