Roel Smelt
Exploring what technology does to us — and then trying it out.

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23
Apr
What Mainstream Media Keeps Missing

What Mainstream Media Keeps Missing

Mainstream media keeps misreading technological change because it judges visible polish instead of underlying architecture. In robotaxis, that means mistaking local competence for scalable intelligence — and missing the systems that may actually reshape civilization.
7 min read
22
Apr
AI Is a New Literacy

AI Is a New Literacy

AI is not just a tool. It is a new literacy — one that expands human creativity, compresses the distance between imagination and execution, and changes who gets to build.
7 min read
15
Apr
The Rise of the Agents

The Rise of the Agents

The Rise of the Agents TL;DR Pioneers like Peter Steinberger’s OpenClaw have shown us the truth: AI agents
2 min read
04
Apr
Hierarchy dissolving into intelligence — people connected by glowing network nodes inside a Roman amphitheater

From Hierarchy to Intelligence — AI4 Accountancy as a Laboratory

Jack Dorsey says hierarchy exists to route information. AI can do that now. Here's what that looks like from the inside — from my parents' shop to Sociocracy, Booking.com, and a WhatsApp group building accounting software without a single developer.
6 min read
01
Apr
A silhouette wearing a dissolving spacetime headset, with pure consciousness light beyond

The Headset We Forgot We're Wearing

Two things are happening right now that almost nobody has connected. First: AGI is arriving faster than the conversation about
7 min read
25
Mar
AI labeling legislation — the new cookie banner

The AI Label Is the New Cookie Banner

We're about to make the same mistake we made with cookie banners. The EU wants to label AI-generated content. It sounds reasonable. It's the wrong solution to the right problem.
3 min read
21
Mar
Human and agent collaborating — the future of thought leadership

I Cancelled My SaaS Stack. My Agent Does It Now.

Last month I cancelled Substack, Descript, Riverside, Pressmaster. Not because they were bad. Because they weren't agentic-first — and in 2026, that's the only question that matters.
3 min read
18
Mar
Why We Need Heroes Who Build Impossible Things

Why We Need Heroes Who Build Impossible Things

I want to tell you a fairytale. Not the kind with dragons and castles, but something better. Something real. Cern
6 min read
17
Mar
What Naval Saw About AI and What He Didn't Say

What Naval Saw About AI and What He Didn't Say

TL;DR: Naval Ravikant's AI article predicts technological abundance but stops before the spiritual crisis it creates. Testing
9 min read
14
Mar
CRINK Didn't Happen to America: America Built It

CRINK Didn't Happen to America: America Built It

China, Russia, Iran, North Korea—the CRINK alliance—didn't form because of shared values. They formed because American
5 min read