Building the train to Brandýs - when everyone has a pitchfork in their closet, what can they throw at you

19.9.2024

Take this as my little recap and optional article for those interested in why everything takes so long to build in the Czech Republic. Yesterday, the Brandýs-Boleslav council approved a memorandum of …

AI can already help with fiction writing

8.9.2024

I’ve been using AI to write articles for quite a long time, but so far it’s always been for fact-based writing. I haven’t used it for fiction, because generating fiction text alone …

The case of the EUs unified mobile phone charger

17.8.2024

Every now and then, a Euro-EU scandal whizzes through the Czech basin, which Western Europe is not as good at picking up as the alert Czech reader. For example, the god-awful fuss that the EU has …

Surveillance capitalism

20.10.2019

Liberal capitalism has one charm: everyone can do what they want in it, as long as they don’t restrict anyone else, and it is on this rule that the modern world tries to stand, with minor …

How was the butter spread story in EU?

3.6.2016

Spreadable butter is a manifestation of what irritates the Czechs about the European Union. It is a traditional Czech food, an invention of socialist dairy farmers, a heritage of our fathers, and the …