Work in Progress by Thomas Otter

HR masters students at Pforzheim

It is fun to teach a bit.

Nov 17 • 

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October 2025

A list after Unleash.

A stream of comments and reflections on the state of worktech

Oct 24 • 

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Unleash 2025!

back again.

Oct 16 • 

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September 2025

Workslop

Great neologism, brilliant argument, sloppy research?

Sep 26 • 

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Early stage enterprise product management, requirements and roadmaps

Learning from Origin Benefits.

Sep 19 • 

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Bigger company buys smaller company, again.

Workday acquires Sana.

Sep 17 • 

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Application tourism, AGI, HR Tech and the stack fallacy.

Musings on OpenAI's AI job matching and learning announcement.

Sep 6 • 

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August 2025

On the recent acquisitions in HR Tech.

Brief reflections on Paradox, SmartRecruiters, Flowise, Workday, SAP and Dayforce

Aug 22 • 

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Building Africa's worktech champion: Workpay

The coolest CTPO gig on the continent. Building something marvelous.

Aug 21 • 

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When to go deep. Technical expertise. A bit about open source. Becoming the cognitive referent.

Techwolf, open source and talking about the recipe. Hungry like the Techwolf.

Aug 12 • 

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July 2025

Wisdom and Imagination in Children's Books.

And a bit of AI thesis of course. Headcount and AI, Karpathy, McKinsey, Jones, imagination and truth. And the Gruffalo.

Jul 25 • 

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AI deployment in enterprises: Mind the gap.

Augmentation, replacement, hype and praxis. And more about AI thesis.

Jul 8 • 

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