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20/04/2026
When a billionaire tells you it’s fun to stop thinking… I. The Boardroom and the Back Deck Somewhere in Menlo Park, a man manages a venture capital firm that deploys billions of dollars using pattern-recognition models, fifty-page investment memos, teams […]
20/04/2026
A NEO Cotruglian Meditation on Hormuz For those who suspect that hitting quarterly targets is not the same as understanding what time you are living in. I. On Objects That Think for Us There is a mechanical watch called the […]
13/04/2026
In 1859, a celestial cataclysm struck Earth, turning night into day and frying the “Victorian Internet.” A Carrington Event today wouldn’t just be inconvenient. It would be the most expensive natural disaster in human history. At 11:18 a.m. on Thursday, […]
07/04/2026
Why the AI-Embedded World Demands a New Species of Leader — Centaur By Dražen Kapusta, Principal & Founder, COTRUGLI Business School | Co-Founder & CEO, HashNET Technologies, Advisor, UNIDO and European Union on AI and Blockchain Strategy “The merchant who […]
24/04/2026
Imagine you reached the top of Maslow’s pyramid. Now imagine you kept climbing. Not in a straight line. The path included reversals, losses, reinventions, some bruises to the ego, and enough wins to teach you that achievement fixes far fewer […]
20/04/2026
When a billionaire tells you it’s fun to stop thinking… I. The Boardroom and the Back Deck Somewhere in Menlo Park, a man manages a venture capital firm that deploys billions of dollars using pattern-recognition models, fifty-page investment memos, teams […]
20/04/2026
A NEO Cotruglian Meditation on Hormuz For those who suspect that hitting quarterly targets is not the same as understanding what time you are living in. I. On Objects That Think for Us There is a mechanical watch called the […]
13/04/2026
In 1859, a celestial cataclysm struck Earth, turning night into day and frying the “Victorian Internet.” A Carrington Event today wouldn’t just be inconvenient. It would be the most expensive natural disaster in human history. At 11:18 a.m. on Thursday, […]
07/04/2026
Chapter 9 from the Vanguard Leadership Book The battlefield of business is no longer just about reacting faster. It is about seeing what others cannot—and training your organization to do the same. Introduction: The Limits of Conventional Intelligence In the […]
07/04/2026
How a widening conflict could reshape energy, shipping, inflation, and strategic positioning — and what COTRUGLI alumni should be asking now. I. Are We Looking at a Short Campaign — or the Opening Phase of Something Longer? The first question […]
07/04/2026
Why the AI-Embedded World Demands a New Species of Leader — Centaur By Dražen Kapusta, Principal & Founder, COTRUGLI Business School | Co-Founder & CEO, HashNET Technologies, Advisor, UNIDO and European Union on AI and Blockchain Strategy “The merchant who […]
03/03/2026
Imagine you are the CEO of one of the most advanced technology companies in the world. It is a Tuesday morning. You open your news feed. And you discover that your product — your AI system, the one with your […]
03/03/2026
For the past two years, the AI race has been framed in almost childish terms: bigger models, bigger clusters, bigger capex, bigger valuations. The market has behaved as if intelligence were simply a function of scale, and scale a function […]
24/02/2026
Why Europe’s Digital Identity Wallet and the AI Governance Debate Both Need the Same Missing Layer In 1458, a Ragusan merchant named Benedetto Cotrugli completed the world’s first known treatise on double-entry bookkeeping — Della Mercatura et del Mercante Perfetto […]
