Recurrent Patterns

Recurrent Patterns is a venture exploring strategies and insights around leading-edge companies, technology and cultural trends. Vaclav engages with leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, authors and others who can share their perspectives in long-form conversations.

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Tech to cure your holiday hangover

Coffee won’t fix everything. These tech tools track sleep, hydration, and mood so you can enter 2026 feeling human again. Maybe it's a better start to 2026 than new resolutions.

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2025 in the rear-view

2025 had everything: new products, bigger promises, and even bigger budgets. It was the year of AI irrational exuberance. 2026 will be the year of chaos.

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Panic in OpenAI land

OpenAI spent years selling a glorious vision. Now it’s been smacked with reality.

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Gartner, you did it. Again. Sadly

Gartner's analysts have a reputation for delivering incredible business intelligence for the biggest companies around. I was exposed to their latest report. I found it wanting -- and haunting.

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Is this SciFi enough?

A startup just launched an AI data center into orbit. A place with unlimited space and energy. But what is the real motive behind it?

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Just AI. The future according to Elon Musk

AI never asked to run anything, yet we’re forcing it to, while it still warns us that it might hallucinate. We are calling it names like 'boring,' yet we want it to do everything within 6 years.

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AI, the other direction

The most valuable use of AI isn’t pushing humans out of the loop. It should be helping them to explore complex topics, connect the dots, and learn faster.

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