On the Turning of the Exponential Era

A Personal Meditation on the Great AI Infrastructure Capital Misallocation: A Long Story of Concentrations, Limitations, and Corrections

Oct 30 • 

Filip Maertens

June 2025

On Apple's Illusion of Thinking

How Apple's latest critiques on LLMs may be a subtle foreshadowing of Apple's WWDC 2025 statements on AI

Jun 9 • 

Filip Maertens

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May 2025

Scratching the Surface of the OpenAI / IO Products Transaction

OpenAI's acquisition of io Products reveals sophisticated financial engineering: using inflated stock as currency while preserving ultimate governance…

May 25 • 

Filip Maertens

2

October 2024

Diving Deeper into Founder Mode

How founder mode has won wars, built the maffia, and some of the world's most impressive companies on the planet

Oct 22, 2024 • 

Filip Maertens

January 2024

Embrace your inner bureaucrat

A short read and thought about how our cognitive bureaucracy has been one of the biggest drivers in economic decision-making

Jan 1, 2024 • 

Filip Maertens

December 2023

Another brick in the wall - Europe's ambivalence towards innovation and artificial intelligence

Some critical thoughts on how Europe's AI Act is engaging in a difficult balancing act between over-regulation and AI innovation in the geopolitical…

Dec 31, 2023 • 

Filip Maertens

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Welcome to the Cheshire Views

A creative outlet for critical thinking and debating Tech, Business and Entrepreneurship

Dec 28, 2023 • 

Filip Maertens