Four books — one open series
“Tech is (not) a long quiet river” — a trilogy about how technology is really made, what it is doing to society, and whether we stay in control of our destiny. Each volume stands alone; together they tell one story — and a fourth volume arrives early 2027.
“Tech is (not) a long quiet river” is also a popular, ongoing newsletter on LinkedIn — its issues feed many of the topics explored throughout the books.
The River That Rows Itself Coming early 2027
On agentic AI, AGI, and who steers when the water moves itself
Artificial intelligence has stopped waiting to be asked: agents now set their own next steps, use tools, spend money, ship software, and hand work to one another faster than human attention can follow. Volume IV takes the series’ method into this deepest water — every term explained in plain words, every measurement traced to its ruler.
Its signature: four “Sea Trials” in which Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Qwen are given real tasks and full autonomy, with everything they do printed unedited — and a book that was itself built by a fleet of agents steered from a single human hand. The question underneath: how people who love being the navigator refuse to become the cargo.
The Tech Net and the Fishes New
Reflections on AI, humor, and staying in control of our destiny
The trilogy’s third volume asks the question behind the myjokes.ai journey: can a machine understand — and even “fix” — a laugh? From the science of humor to the inside of a humor engine, it uses comedy as the hardest test of what AI really grasps about being human.
Its signature: three dialogues in which Claude and ChatGPT join the author on the page — “What is humor?”, “Explain the joke”, and “Can AI fix humor — and should it?” — closing on how we keep control of our destiny.
Surfing the new Tech world
A reflection on the societal ripples of relentless technological progress
How the tech industry is lifting humanity to genuinely new heights while, in the same motion, exposing it to genuinely new dangers — a survey of the weather ahead, from AI and privacy to the way progress reshapes work, trust and society.
Who says Tech is a long, quiet river?
A practical guide for next-gen tech leaders
The story from the inside: a French engineer’s improbable route through Silicon Valley, and how the industry actually works behind its own mythology — how products, teams and innovation are really made, distilled into a practical playbook.