Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 19/02/2026Potemkische Politik: Laut AGBs sind die meisten Dienste bis 13 ohnehin verboten, eine Erhöhung auf 14 bringt also nichts. Zudem: Grund für das Verbot ist, dass Jugendliche in der Pubertät besonders anfällig sind für Stereotype die über Social Media verbreitet werden. Das ist mit 14 nicht anders … 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 10/12/2025Short, but still extremely insightful piece by Simon Schmid (SkillLab) on unnecessary friction in the labor market: Even though interest is stakeholders are aligned, coordination between them is frail. Skills should become the lingua franca of the labor market: www.linkedin.com/pulse/labor-...linkedin.comThe Labor Market Operating System: Why Aligned Interests Still Lead to Missed OpportunitiesIf you take a step back and look at the labor market from a distance, everybody wants the same thing: The interests are perfectly aligned. But, in practice, progress stalls. 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 04/11/2025Und einen Aktivisten, dessen Familie bei den jüngsten Gewalttaten in Syrien getötet wurde. Keiner sollte abgeschoben werden. Vielleicht können wir also mal eine Debatte führen wo es nicht nur darum geht wann welche Syrer abgeschoben werden? 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 04/11/2025Ich kenne drei syrische Geflüchtete: eine Ärztin, die ein Jahr in der Firma meiner Frau gearbeitet hat um Deutsch zu lernen und nun im Krankenhaus arbeitet, einen Kollegen, der nebenbei eine eigene Firma gründete und eine Familie. 100
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 13/10/2025I could hardly imagine a better guest than Hans Rusinek for this episode of our newsletter Work/Code. As a "pracademic" who combines academic research and consulting, Hans has a very practical lense on AI and work but never misses the big questions workcode.substack.com/p/hans-rusin...workcode.substack.comHans Rusinek: "When all companies use AI, the human factor becomes decisive"When adopting a "practical optimism", workers and organisations can maintain agency even in the age of AI 010
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 08/10/2025GitHub 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-... 010
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 06/10/2025In 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... 010
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 05/10/2025The next few episodes of our Work/Code newsletter focus on how companies can adapt AI. This is crucial to move beyond the prototype and explorative phase so I am really excited about today's interview with Lufthansa's Cindy Richter: workcode.substack.com/p/cindy-rich...workcode.substack.comCindy Richter: "AI creates roles that didn’t even exist before"Lufthansa’s Head of Marketing on why AI is opening up a whole new field to think bigger – and what it takes to stay creative in the age of automation 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 02/10/2025Our series on AI and the future of work continues with a conversation with Jonas Andrulis, founder of German AI firm Aleph Alpha. Jonas argues that a chatbot connected to your hard drive does not solve business problems. Context is king. workcode.substack.com/p/jonas-andr...workcode.substack.comJonas Andrulis: "Digitize the state! That’s the foundation we all stand on"The co-founder of Aleph Alpha argues the real risk of AI isn’t job loss – it’s speed, concentration of power, and whether Europe chooses to build or just buy 010
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 01/10/2025AI 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... 010
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 30/09/2025I am honoured that C. B. Frey opens our first series of our new newsletter Work/Code in which we explore how AI impacts work. We delve deeply into the impact that AI has on labor markets! Please do subscribe to not miss our other conversations! workcode.substack.com/p/carl-bened...workcode.substack.comCarl Benedikt Frey: "Professionals are not prepared for the coming changes"AI will have the same effect on white-collar workers as the 1970s de-industrialisation had on blue-collar workers. But economies can, and must, adapt. 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 29/09/2025This 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 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 24/09/2025Over the past years, I developed my own habit on writing using the Zettelkasten system. It’s tedious, sometimes it’s frustrating and hurts. But Derek Thompson is right: if it hurts, it means you’re probably doing something right! open.substack.com/pub/derektho...open.substack.comThe End of ThinkingThe rise of AI's "thinking" machines is not the problem. The decline of thinking people is. 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 21/09/2025It 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 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 15/09/2025Ethan 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! 011
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 14/09/2025AI challenges the world of work as we know it. In our new newsletter Work/Code, Markus Albers and I speak to technologists, academics, creatives, workers, and mangers to look behind the headlines and uncover the quiet revolutions unfolding inside companies, economies, and countries. Subscribe now!workcode.substack.comThe Future of Work, In ProgressA new newsletter that helps you understand and direct the future of work in an AI economy 010
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 12/09/2025Carl 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 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 09/09/2025Today, the EU will publish its "strategic foresight report" which will discuss artificial general intelligence (AGI). But the Commission should not just focus on "superintelligence", but also "mass intelligence". danielflorian.substack.com/p/we-should-...danielflorian.substack.comWe should prepare for "mass intelligence", not just "superintelligence"Policymakers need to prepare for potentially powerful AI systems without overregulating for a future that may not come 120
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 21/08/2025But arguably, this is all "there will be dragons" area, so I might be wrong. If you believe in path dependency, however, I believe the political reaction to a user falling in love with a bot is to strengthen consumer protection, not considering to allow a wedding between a person and a bot ... 030
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 21/08/2025Sure, animals also can't vote and yet they have rights, but that's because of a powerful human movement that I don't see in the AI space. The Pirate Party which for some time gained traction in Europe is basically extinct and I find it difficult to imagine a party taking on the cause of conscious AI 100
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 21/08/2025As you say, consciousness is the basis for many legal rights; I don't see the political process to get there, though: Existing legislation is product regulation, fundamental rights protection (for humans) or consumer protection. And AIs cannot vote, so why should a policy maker give them rights? 100
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 01/08/2025Looking forward to the reading, especially because of what’s to come this fall - stay tuned! 010
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 31/07/2025This is really getting out of hands ... It's like raiding Fiat because they put a Fiat motor into their car! 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 31/07/2025The AI plans of the UK, the EU and the U.S. signal a shift in the AI debate. But who will get an edge in AI-induced growth and what does this mean for AI safety? danielflorian.substack.com/p/i-have-a-p...danielflorian.substack.com"I have a plan": Comparing AI action plans in the EU, the UK and the U.S.Will economic competition overshadow AI safety? 010
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 13/06/2025I knew about the partnership between Google and _Firefox_ but didn't know it apparently expands to real 🦊: A couple of foxes find Google's rooftop garden in London so comfortable that they decided to live there (I guess there's also great food): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comGoogle battling fox incursion on roof of £1bn London officeFoxes have ‘begun to dig burrows’ in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King’s Cross headquarters 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 03/06/2025Dobrindt. Macht schon am ersten Arbeitstag als Minister wieder Probleme ...media.tenor.coma crowd of people with their hands on their headsALT: a crowd of people with their hands on their heads 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 27/05/2025... get smarter over time and I provide constant feedback on the actual outcome of our foresight sessions, I wonder how much smarter they will become over time! 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 27/05/2025One and a half hours of sparring with my new consultant ChatGPT on the potential delay of the entry into force of the EU AI Act. The question itself does not even matter that much but it's interesting to see the chatbot learning about politics with me. If they recall our conversation .... 100
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 23/05/2025You want to go from Prague to Brussels by train? Or Brussels to Madrid? @europeansleeper.eu has issued a bond loan offer to support their expansion. Starts with loans of 1,000 EUR and includes a 20% discount because who does not like a discount? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comEuropean Sleeper - LoanDear shareholder/bondholder, First of all, thank you for your trust in European Sleeper and your commitment to our goals thus far. Because you are among our largest shareholders or bondholders, Europ... 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 23/05/2025Yes, European scale-ups need more money. But I doubt that an EU startup fund is going to do the trick. What would help is a harmonisation of EU financial markets and tapping into the savings of European citizens pro.politico.eu/news/199173pro.politico.euPOLITICO Pro 010
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 23/05/2025Quick 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? 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 14/05/2025We should really stop calling the EU a "colony" of US tech firms. Under the umbrella of colonialism, European powers have committed genocide and exploited whole continents and out of this historical responsibility, we should not self-victimize ourselves just because it "catchy". #POLITICOAITech 010
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 12/05/2025Wunderbarer Jahresempfang von @d-64.org mit @lenastork.bsky.social, Yasmin Fahimi, Prof. Judith Simon und @sveawindwehr.bsky.social 👉 Mitglied werden!chatgpt.comPanel Discussion with Golden Balloons 052
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 10/05/2025Here is my post-election take: danielflorian.substack.com/p/is-friedri...danielflorian.substack.comIs Friedrich Merz really the new strong man in Europe?The Conservatives won yesterday's election in Germany, but their leader Friedrich Merz still faces some challenges before he can enter the chancellory. 020
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 10/05/2025Good piece by @constelz.bsky.social on the state of the Conservatives in Germany; but I'd argue there's three camps: the populist Conservatives (driven by AfD), the Merkel Conservatives (did really well in elections) and Merz's traditionalists (underperformed in elections): on.ft.com/452n6hvon.ft.comMerz averted disaster, but the knives are outDeep divisions among German conservatives could spell trouble for the new chancellor 131
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 03/05/2025Very interesting @semafor.com post on the increasing influence of group chats - required reading for everyone interested in public opinion and public life: www.semafor.com/article/04/2...semafor.comThe group chats that changed AmericaA loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right. 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 01/05/2025A while ago, I also wrote a blog post on the slow diffusion of new technologies so maybe you want to check this out as well and subscribe to my Substack: danielflorian.substack.com/p/why-ais-ec...danielflorian.substack.comWhy AI's economic impact is still invisible – for nowA look at history shows that new inventions need time to develop economic impact. And sometimes, we don't even recognise it fully. 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 01/05/2025Last 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... 140
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 26/04/2025Ein lesenswertes Gespräch mit Kevin Kühnert über Spitzenpolitik, Macht und das Gefühl von Machtlosigkeit. www.zeit.de/2025/17/kevi... 000
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? 010
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... 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 14/04/2025I wanted to say: reservations against a blanket tech tax are compatible with targeted levies e. g. on digital advertising. 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 12/04/2025Aren‘t these two different things? UvdL spoke about a levy on digital advertising which is sth. you can also hear from members of Germany‘s new coalition. That is compatible with a blanket tax on all digital services and would shield European tech firms from new taxes … 100
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 09/04/2025Merz's wing of the party (traditional Conservatives) performed below the national average in all states during the federal election. 000
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 09/04/2025This was predictable: If you look at the Conservative's election results state by state, it's clear that there will be pressure to lean towards the right from East German PMs and to the left from West German PMs where the party did better than national average: www.politico.eu/article/frie...politico.euGermany’s Merz is already in political troubleThe incoming chancellor vowed to be a strong leader for Europe, but coalition talks may leave him focused on damage control at home. 100
Daniel Florian 👋 @danielflorian.de · 08/04/2025Was? Merkel hat immer noch kein Porträt im Kanzleramt? Ich hab' da mal was vorbereitet: 000