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The city this site is written from, on the Rhine where Switzerland meets France and Germany: its pharmaceutical cluster, and the thinkers who lived there, Nietzsche as a professor, Hesse as a child and a bookseller, Jung as a medical student.

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  2. talkI Stopped Writing Most of My Code

    Slide deck for IT's ABOUT TECH #13 in Basel. A 15-minute story about what changed for a long-time engineer after Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Code arrived, and what happens to a backlog of years-old ideas when the bottleneck stops being time.

    AI-assisted engineeringAugmentationBasel

    13 min

  3. articlePatents Per Capita Is a Vanity Metric

    Switzerland tops the Global Innovation Index for the fifteenth year running. As an engineer, that should make you suspicious of the metric, not proud of the country.

    MetricsPolicySovereigntyEconomicsSwitzerlandBaselIntellectual propertyUnited StatesChinaSemiconductors

    23 min read · 6 chapters

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