My Frustrating Journey to Create an Agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio for Applied Skills

Passed with 96% but at what cost? My honest experience inside Microsoft Copilot’s Applied Skills lab to create an agent, where bugs outpaced the exam itself.

From Cartoons to Code: Why Life Runs on Reps

Repetition shapes us. From childhood cartoons to coding late at night. Here’s why looping again and again is how we truly learn.

Eight-Legged Truths: From Werewolves to Water Leaks

A wild July update: cracked teeth, plumbing fails, Citrix chaos, Nigerian time, forbidden love, and a dystopian binge. Eight real-life stories, one human thread.

The Locker Room Ballet of Human Signals

How much can a single “yeah” say? From Dutch tones to dressing room stares, Mike explores why communication is more than words—even in the age of AI.

Data, Dates & Disillusions: A Memoir in Three Lives

A personal reflection on leadership, reunion, and meaning—through a Winvision memoir, a Sony keynote, and a government collapse. When data becomes memory.

When the Break Lights Lie: A Signal to Start Data Month

An EV misjudges a pedestrian crossing—launching Mike’s Data Month with a true story about invisible risks, sensor gaps, and the paradoxes of AI-driven awareness.

Eyes Wide Open: The Paradox of Privacy in a Smart World

On Ascension Day, I reflect on smart glasses, UX, privacy, and the paradox of live-logging life while risking exposure in the age of AI.

Roundabouts, Ray-Bans, and the Westland

A narrated drive from Hoek van Holland to The Hague—greenhouses, wind farms, roundabouts, and Ray-Bans—capturing the Dutch spirit in motion through Mike’s eyes.

Zit Happens: Ramblings Through a Video Shoot

From a rogue zit to quantum questions, join Mike behind the scenes of a corporate AI video shoot—and discover why rambling might just be the ultimate human interface.

Curiosapiens: What Your Favorite Scientists Reflect

Five dads, one playground question: who’s your favorite scientist? A reflection on Penrose, Hoffman, Leeuwenhoek, and what our scientific heroes reveal about us.