Daniel Florian 👋
@danielflorian.de
Experienced government affairs leader and EU tech policy analyst. #RemoteWork #TechPolicy. Posts meant to be thought-provoking, not partisan.
GitHub has a systematic approach to enhancing AI skills across the whole company. And their bottom-up approach means that teams decide how they want AI to help them. As a result, GitHub found that nearly every team has benefitted from AI. workcode.substack.com/p/matt-nigh-...
October 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
GitHub has a systematic approach to enhancing AI skills across the whole company. And their bottom-up approach means that teams decide how they want AI to help them. As a result, GitHub found that nearly every team has benefitted from AI. workcode.substack.com/p/matt-nigh-...
In recent weeks, there have been a lot of new model releases that make creative work much easier. That's why it's great that we have Cindy Richter of Lufthansa to speak to us at Work/Code about how AI changes the work of marketing teams workcode.substack.com/p/cindy-rich...
October 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In recent weeks, there have been a lot of new model releases that make creative work much easier. That's why it's great that we have Cindy Richter of Lufthansa to speak to us at Work/Code about how AI changes the work of marketing teams workcode.substack.com/p/cindy-rich...
AI can boost your economy or destroy it. As a trained historian, I believe that looking into the past can help us navigate the present which I why I was grateful to be able to speak to Carl Benedikt Frey for our newsletter: workcode.substack.com/p/carl-bened...
October 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
AI can boost your economy or destroy it. As a trained historian, I believe that looking into the past can help us navigate the present which I why I was grateful to be able to speak to Carl Benedikt Frey for our newsletter: workcode.substack.com/p/carl-bened...
This week, Markus Albers and I are starting a new newsletter exploring how AI shapes work. Each series, we are speaking to five great speakers as we aim to look beyond the attention-grabbing headlines and look at the quiet revolutions happening in the workplace. Subscribe here: workcode.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This week, Markus Albers and I are starting a new newsletter exploring how AI shapes work. Each series, we are speaking to five great speakers as we aim to look beyond the attention-grabbing headlines and look at the quiet revolutions happening in the workplace. Subscribe here: workcode.substack.com
It can be hard to make sense of what AI means for work. In our upcoming newsletter, Markus Albers and I speak with leading thinkers to look behind the headlines and uncover the quiet revolution of AI .Want to join us for the ride? Subscribe now and don't miss an episode: lnkd.in/em3KNvyP
September 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
It can be hard to make sense of what AI means for work. In our upcoming newsletter, Markus Albers and I speak with leading thinkers to look behind the headlines and uncover the quiet revolution of AI .Want to join us for the ride? Subscribe now and don't miss an episode: lnkd.in/em3KNvyP
Ethan Mollick makes an interesting observation here: As new LLMs are more powerful and more opaque at the same time, how does that change how we work with them? This is what we explore in our newsletter workcode.substack.com. Subscribe now!
September 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Ethan Mollick makes an interesting observation here: As new LLMs are more powerful and more opaque at the same time, how does that change how we work with them? This is what we explore in our newsletter workcode.substack.com. Subscribe now!
Carl B. Frey’s new book “How Progress Ends” gets a glowing review in the FT today. I am proud that Markus Albers and I were able to interview him for our upcoming newsletter series about AI and the future of work which starts in October. Subscribe here to read our interview workcode.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Carl B. Frey’s new book “How Progress Ends” gets a glowing review in the FT today. I am proud that Markus Albers and I were able to interview him for our upcoming newsletter series about AI and the future of work which starts in October. Subscribe here to read our interview workcode.substack.com
Looking forward to the reading, especially because of what’s to come this fall - stay tuned!
August 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Looking forward to the reading, especially because of what’s to come this fall - stay tuned!
This is really getting out of hands ... It's like raiding Fiat because they put a Fiat motor into their car!
July 31, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This is really getting out of hands ... It's like raiding Fiat because they put a Fiat motor into their car!
Smart move by Uber drivers!
June 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Smart move by Uber drivers!
Quick question: Everybody seems to say that the OpenAI / Jony Ive collab is an attack to Apple. Why? Apple is not relevant in the AI space. I’d say it’s an attack on Google who run both an OS and corresponding hardware and amazing software. What’s your take?
May 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Quick question: Everybody seems to say that the OpenAI / Jony Ive collab is an attack to Apple. Why? Apple is not relevant in the AI space. I’d say it’s an attack on Google who run both an OS and corresponding hardware and amazing software. What’s your take?
Last week, an essay from @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social made the rounds called "AI as a normal technology". Read the whole essay if you can, but policy makers have little time, so I pulled out the main takeaways for legislators. Full text: knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...
May 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Last week, an essay from @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social made the rounds called "AI as a normal technology". Read the whole essay if you can, but policy makers have little time, so I pulled out the main takeaways for legislators. Full text: knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...
Ein lesenswertes Gespräch mit Kevin Kühnert über Spitzenpolitik, Macht und das Gefühl von Machtlosigkeit. www.zeit.de/2025/17/kevi...
April 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Ein lesenswertes Gespräch mit Kevin Kühnert über Spitzenpolitik, Macht und das Gefühl von Machtlosigkeit. www.zeit.de/2025/17/kevi...
@johnthornhill.bsky.social Do you think there is a case to be made that insurance increase might accelerate uptake of AI agents (think of Klarna, the Shopify memo) because agents don‘t pay insurance? That would probably be unintended by the government but still a possible outcome?
April 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
@johnthornhill.bsky.social Do you think there is a case to be made that insurance increase might accelerate uptake of AI agents (think of Klarna, the Shopify memo) because agents don‘t pay insurance? That would probably be unintended by the government but still a possible outcome?
"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." That's why I tried to incorporate an easy to update stakeholder management database to my personal productivity system in Notion. Here's how I do it: danielflorian.substack.com/p/a-better-w...
April 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." That's why I tried to incorporate an easy to update stakeholder management database to my personal productivity system in Notion. Here's how I do it: danielflorian.substack.com/p/a-better-w...
Was? Merkel hat immer noch kein Porträt im Kanzleramt? Ich hab' da mal was vorbereitet:
April 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Was? Merkel hat immer noch kein Porträt im Kanzleramt? Ich hab' da mal was vorbereitet:
Cheat sheet for German coalition negotiations, chapter on digital transformation of the state:
March 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Cheat sheet for German coalition negotiations, chapter on digital transformation of the state:
Asked Grok about the likelihood of a "grand coalition" in Germany before Easter. This is just a part, but overall quite impressive. I think the 60-65% ratio primarily comes from the tight timeline and the AI did a pretty good job in weighing pros and cons for the case:
March 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Asked Grok about the likelihood of a "grand coalition" in Germany before Easter. This is just a part, but overall quite impressive. I think the 60-65% ratio primarily comes from the tight timeline and the AI did a pretty good job in weighing pros and cons for the case:
Imagine a company that is "too small to fail" because they can adapt more quickly and therefore fail less often? That is exactly the type of company Paul Jarvis has in mind in his book "Company of One":
March 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Imagine a company that is "too small to fail" because they can adapt more quickly and therefore fail less often? That is exactly the type of company Paul Jarvis has in mind in his book "Company of One":
Hello Bluesky Flashes!
March 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Hello Bluesky Flashes!
Wo war denn die Antifa, als Lübcke ermordet wurde? Auf der Straße.
February 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Wo war denn die Antifa, als Lübcke ermordet wurde? Auf der Straße.