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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It’s about time, isn’t it?
Time is money, but also a 500-microsecond leap-second headache. The only thing more unreliable than human calendars is the software that pretends to understand them.
Technology as intended to be
The 21-year old PHP bug. From discovery to a fix in a few weeks. Tesla Roadster: Zero to 60 mph in 1 second. Tech is making everything faster. Jump to it!
The home hub. This time it is Apple
A new heart for your home, for under $300? You decide: Is Apple’s HomeView bringing joy or anxiety?
Dots and Muse
What’s free, cute, takes your data, and makes mistakes on your behalf?
Meta’s new Muse agent.
Don’t forget: if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.
Can you prove that you are from the future?
You travel back to 1995 and tell everyone the Internet will change everything.
They laugh.
That’s the problem every startup founder faces today.
What would impress you?
Okay, AI – You solved the Navier-Stokes problem.
Now do something harder.
Tell us humans something we don’t know.
Does AI really create a competitive moat for your company?
Countless founders are launching new companies and using AI to differentiate themselves in the market. Is that the winning strategy?
Ads, the easy way out
Billions are being spent building AI.
The question: What is the product? What is the business model?
Same old - ads, harvesting your data and searches, to serve you more ads.
This time, it’s the French
“Let’s just switch systems.”
Four words that can turn into years of work, millions in costs and a lot of regret.
Munich knows. France is yet to learn