Recently, Johannes Koch wrote a LinkedIn post about AI slop - how the flood of AI-generated content is changing what writing means and how we consume it. That post got me thinking. I use AI as a tool myself (and also will for this blog), but that post was a good reminder: there’s lots of value in putting your own thoughts out there, in your own voice, shaped by your own experience.
I’ve been a speaker, event organizer, and AWS Hero for over a decade. I haven’t written publicly in more than ten years - I’ve always preferred a good conversation over writing. I still do. But I’ve come to realize that a blog can (and maybe should) be a conversation starter too - with or without me in the room. That’s reason enough to start writing again.
What to expect
I’ll be writing about:
- AWS & Cloud - lessons learned from over a decade of building and advising on AWS
- Leadership & Strategy - how I think about teams, decisions, and navigating complexity
- Community - running the AWS User Group Munich, organizing AWS Community Days, and speaking internationally for over a decade
- Everything else that comes to my mind - buckle up!
How I plan to write
I’m not going to overthink this. My process is simple:
- Have an idea about something that could be interesting for others
- Discuss it with an AI (or a human being when possible)
- Write down that discussion - distill it, shape it, make it mine
- Post it here
No editorial calendar, no SEO optimization, no content strategy. Just thoughts, shaped through conversation, published when ready.
Let’s see where this goes.