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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️
@manuel.koelman.de
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Entrepreneurship. Startups. Leadership. Personal development. Making business more human. Fascinated by the wonder(s) of life. Single dad of two. Founder and entrepreneur @ https://pirate.global. Building durable businesses.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 1h
Love makes you vulnerable.

That’s not a flaw.

That’s the point.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 3h
The content economy is heading for a future where no human ever sees most of what’s produced. Infinite noise, zero attention.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 5h
Maybe the problem isn't the plan, but the reliance on plans themselves.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 7h
The AI curve will outpace your company’s ability to adopt it.

That’s just reality.

The winners will be the ones who learn to adapt workflows fast, not the ones waiting for a perfect solution.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 8h
Automation may save time.

But attention is what gives time meaning.

What if we stopped optimizing and started noticing again?

Not everything sacred can be scheduled.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 23h
There's no "normal." No "obvious." Just billions of valid- yet limited- realities.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 1d
The greatest AI advantage today is not algorithmic, it’s organizational.

Teams that restructure processes for agents will accelerate.

Teams that wait for "plug-and-play" intelligence will stagnate.

Process design is now a competitive moat.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 1d
Life is change.

In times of change, adaptability > knowledge.

That's why those that can consistently adapt succeed in life.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 1d
Obsessively comparing your "now" to others' "now" is a recipe for misery.

Focus on your growth.

That's controllable.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 1d
Nice people soften rejection with false hope.

Kind people say no and let you move on.

Kindness isn't always nice, but always necessary.

#BeKindNotNice
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 1d
Running one mile has more in common with a marathon than sitting at home.

Investing $50 has more in common with being wealthy than being broke.

Writing one sentence has more in common with a book than never writing.

Trajectory matters more than position. Start small.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 1d
The world will always be noisy. If your peace depends on its silence, you’re trapped.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 2d
Many people think they’re burned out because they work too much.

Often, they’re burned out because they’ve been working on things that don’t matter to them.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 2d
The real value of learning isn’t what it gets you today.
It’s the mental resilience it builds for what’s coming.

Call it cognitive strength training - for battles you don’t yet see.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 2d
Trust doesn’t scale.

Psychological safety can’t be optimized.

You can’t A/B test your way into real connection.

Some leadership truths are inconvenient - and deeply necessary.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 2d
Stop blaming "they" or "it".

"They made me feel..." becomes "I'm feeling..."

Emotional responsibility isn't sexy, but it's freeing.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 2d
Commitment avoidance often masks a fear of facing the conditioning that tells you happiness resides elsewhere.

True happiness is already within.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 2d
Relationships are alive; they die when neglected.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 3d
Learning expands. Certainty shrinks.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 3d
A world remade by AI: Near-zero production costs, abundant resources, basic needs met.

Does humanity then focus on purpose, creativity, or trivialities?
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 3d
Fear is a phantom chorus of imaginary opinions.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 3d
The winning workflow is not "AI in every step" but "AI drafts, humans refine."

The new role of the human is editor, not typist.

Those who design systems around this principle will move faster than those who keep humans micromanaging every keystroke.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 3d
Modern life's constant stimulation rewires our brains for instant gratification, dulling our capacity for simple joys.

We become addicts to the mundane.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 3d
Most AI Agent products don’t require better models.

They just need:
- Domain expertise
- A great prompt
- Contextual data
- Solid UX

The intelligence is already there. It’s just waiting to be packaged.
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Manuel @ PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ @manuel.koelman.de · 4d
CEOs fixated on quarterly numbers outsource the future of their companies to someone else.

They make it "someone else's problem".

Won't happen in owner driven companies e.g. family-owned companies.