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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 02/10/2026

Amsterdam doesn't disappoint. Last time I was here for a Taylor Swift concert. This week I was in town for a conference. Gotta make sure to always plan in some time to enjoy the chill vibes.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 30/08/2026

After two years of late frost leaving our fruit trees fruitless, this has been an absolute banger of a harvest. The tree was so laden with fruit we had to bind branches together for support. The peaches aren’t the greatest for eating, though they are tasty, but make for excellent jam or compote.

So many ripe peaches, freshly harvested.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/08/2026

Companies fire employees based on the promise they could be replaced by AI only to realise that it's not that easy. invezz.com/news/2026/07...

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/08/2026

The algorithmic (can we still even call them social?) platforms give us tools to create an abundance of meaning- and soulless posts with equally unappealing imagery only to then consider the consequences for their platform's waning appeal to humans. www.msn.com/en-us/techno...

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/08/2026

Ask everyone to increase (pardon, maxx) their token usage, only to then realise (quelle surprise!) that that stuff is expensive in real life and that tokens used, just like lines of code, is no realistic measure of value created: www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/08/2026

Create a product to generate AI music, then include a feature that makes filtering/moderating AI music easier www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/08/2026

You can create incredible amounts of content, including spam, that is posted by AI agents, generated from data harvested from the very platforms they now flood, only to then have to manage them using other AI agents. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... www.theverge.com/tech/975398/...

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/08/2026

AI continues to feel like an ouroboros to me, the snake that bites its own tail. Whatever gains are perceived/assumed/purported are then outweighed by the increased effort required to manage whatever those gains product as output.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/08/2026

What happens when you don’t attend to the garden for a week or two. Zukes reach ginormous sizes and become inedible. The heaviest clocks in at about 3kg. Diner mug for scale. It is magical though, just how much energy plants put into producing fruit like these.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 21/07/2026

Nothing quite like ending a day of research and meetings with a swim in a lake.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 19/07/2026

I've written a whole bunch of postcards on my recent trips and it's been genuinely fun and also slight puzzling to see all the responses I've gotten from folks receiving them. It's usually a photo of the card, sometimes receivers included, together with a thank you note.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 21/01/2026

Gotta be honest, I've been waiting for this ever since I saw the movie for the first time (seen many times since). A real shame, Mira's isn't named "Spice Queen"

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 16/08/2025

Came back to a few overly large zukes too, which have been thriving this year.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 16/08/2025

Proper tomato harvest today, Black Russian and Cœur de bœuf. Last couple of hot days have done magic in the greenhouse. Going to be a feast.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 15/08/2025

Just the Riesling will do, thank you very much.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 15/08/2025

When in doubt, go for the Riesling. Excerpts from a little solo wine trip through Germany (Unstrut, Lower Franconia, Black Forest, Mosel, Saale) and Alsace that I was on over the past nine days.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 04/08/2025

Also pretty cool that the book is now featured oh so prominently on the business books table, seems to be doing well 😍

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 04/08/2025

Whenever I'm at Dussmann I like to sneak signed bookmarks and stickers into the copies of our book @intentionalorganization.com, hoping it brightens someone's day when they pick up a copy 😃

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 27/07/2025

Lushest of greens in the greenhouse right now. Tomatoes and some aubergines on the left, chilis on the right. Basil sprinkled all over:

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 27/07/2025

Harvest season continues. Zucchinis are growing well this year (though some of the blossoms have also fallen prey to the weeks of rain), tomatoes are ripening nicely, albeit taking on too much water:

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 06/07/2025

First season (this is our fifth season growing veg overall) that we've been successful growing cauliflower. Going straight to the oven for dinner tonight!

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 26/06/2025

Had a splendid time in London last week at @leaddev.com's LDX3 event. @saralouhicks.com and I got to give a joint talk in front of 900 people. We had a stockpile of books to get into people's hands and sign them. And we visited and appreciate our book on shelf at Dussmann in Berlin!

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 26/06/2025

There are some upsides to walking home on a warm summer evening in Berlin.

Sunset view of the Spree from Oberbaumbrücke in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 12/05/2025

What I'm really wondering after watching Thunderbolts the first time around is: what is happening to that guinea pig? Is it their new (in)official mascot? Is it joining the team? Maybe the second viewing today will reveal more?

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 26/04/2025

Obligatory book selfie at Dussmann's Kulturkaufhaus, my favourite English book store in Berlin, where our book is now in stock! 😍

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 09/04/2025

We love books so much, we made a super-limited run of pleather hand-bound books I had made at a local bookbinding shop. All done by hand. Custom stamp for the embossed gold printing. It's beautiful and feels so buttery soft.

Front cover of a pleather-bound, limited-run version of the book "The Intentional Organization" by Sara Hicks & Mathias Meyer.

Back cover of a pleather-bound, limited-run version of the book "The Intentional Organization" by Sara Hicks & Mathias Meyer

Spine of a pleather-bound, limited-run version of the book "The Intentional Organization" by Sara Hicks & Mathias Meyer

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 08/04/2025

How far are we from the 100x CEO? Or are we already there?

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/04/2025

Oh it's just me surrounded by rye whiskey barrels at the Stork Club Distillery just outside of Berlin. Checking up on the merchandise, so to speak

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 06/04/2025

Having just finished a book and enjoying the process of writing and creating something from an empty cursor, this part of the article deeply resonates. www.theverge.com/apps/642131/...

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 01/04/2025

“It’s the most beautiful business book I’ve ever seen,” said a person I was meeting the other day as I held up our book. It’s not just dense and actionable, the kind of book on management and leadership we wanted to see in the world, we wanted to make it visually pleasing, inside and out.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 25/03/2025

So happy and excited that our book "The Intentional Organization" is available for preorder, shipping starting on April 8! Been such joy to hold it in our hands for the first time and sign the first copies for friends, families, and our early reviewers! intentionalorganization.com/journal/we-w...

Several stacks of copies of the book "The Intentional Organization."

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 29/01/2025

There’s little in a writer's life that rivals the thrill, excitement, despair, and the endless possibilities (and the challenge of exploring them) as an empty page in a notebook or a blinking cursor on a new and empty text file.

An open notebook with an empty page and a fountain pen next to it.

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 23/01/2025

In my latest article, I explore the different personas of the CTO role. The question of what the CTO's role is now and what it should be comes up in my coaching practice constantly. Herein I dissect how you can find better answers to this question: intentionalorganization.com/journal/what...

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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 25/12/2024

Had been on a long break from making sourdough and made a decent comeback with this loaf. First one in a long time that I made in a dutch oven. With gratuitous landscaping work going on in the background.

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