Logging Off

Last year felt like someone pressed stop on my life and rewound the tape.
It changed me: personally, technically, and even in the work I do.
Today I press play again.

A decade ago, I wrote "The Zen Programmer". Overwork and burnout filled our offices; development felt like endurance.

Then AI arrived. Our problems shifted, and the landscape changed. This year, I've seen it up close.
It feels like yesterday I was overbooked with trainings. Now, AI explains faster, and tools like Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex are said to write cleaner code. But when you look closer at some generated code, it becomes clear that speed alone is not wisdom. AI must be supervised.

My book was about simplicity, about peace in work. The first edition was a personal success, but also a symbol of its time.
That time has passed. If I were to write it again, it wouldn’t be about ego and burnout. It would be about ethics, awareness, and empathy: the true pillars of humanity in an age of code.

We need those pillars now. Mankind is overwrought with wars. Some fear for their existence in a failing economy. Others fear a technology we barely understand. Everything around us moves at high speed, yet our lives feel like they run in slow motion.

I work fast. I feel slow.
The paradox of a new age.

Reading is slow.
Maybe that’s why some people have stopped reading at all.
AI can read and summarize everything for us. "Deep reading" has become a niche—an act of resistance for lovers of poetry and prose.
No longer called nerds, but slow people.
At the same time, I see more turning to audio.
Are human voices still more valuable than AI narrations and summaries?
I started recording to find out.

That's how Logging Off began.
It's a place to zoom out and reconnect what technology has divided.
A foundation woven from Open Source, Zen, sanity, and art.
Each essay is an invitation.

If you've followed my work before, welcome back. It's been a while.
If you’ve only just found me, welcome.

This is Logging Off.
Return differently.