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Today was supposed to be an entirely ordinary day in Chișinău. Instead, we found ourselves standing close to a major fire at the Central Market, watching firefighters work while a huge column of dark smoke rose above one of the busiest commercial areas of the city. It was one of those moments when something familiar changes character almost instantly. Chișinău's Central Market — Piața Centrală — is normally a place of noise, movement and commerce. People walk between stalls carrying bags. Traders call to customers. Cars compete for space around the surrounding streets. There are clothes, shoes, household goods, food, electronics, cafés, pharmacies and small businesses packed together in the dense commercial area around the market. Today there were all of those things. And then there was smoke. At first, the smoke The first thing that made the scale of the situation obvious was the smoke. It was impossible to miss. A larg...

One of the interesting things about renovating a small house is that every time one problem begins to disappear, another decision immediately moves to the front of the queue. For the last few weeks, most of our attention has been concentrated on the kitchen. It is now almost finished. The cabinets are in, the worktops are in place, the appliances are being integrated, and what remains is largely dependent on the electrician completing the final connections and electrical work. That is an important milestone for us because this first little house is gradually ceasing to look like a construction project and beginning to look like somewhere we can actually live. And that means it is time to move to the next room. The bedroom. From kitchen cabinets to bedroom cabinets The immediate bedroom project is the wardrobe. We have now received the first sketch of what it could look like, and I find this stage of the process surprisingly interesting. At f...

Business concept: This article is associated with my business idea for a Autonomous Revenue Intelligence. For decades, companies have been building increasingly sophisticated systems to answer a deceptively simple question: Where will our next euro of revenue come from? We started with spreadsheets. Then came Customer Relationship Management systems. CRM gave organisations a structured place to record accounts, contacts, opportunities, activities and forecasts. Marketing automation added another layer. Instead of waiting for a salesperson to discover a potential customer, companies could observe digital engagement, nurture prospects, score leads and orchestrate campaigns at enormous scale. Business intelligence then gave management increasingly sophisticated dashboards. More recently, machine learning began predicting which opportunities might close, which accounts deserved attention and whether the quarterly forecast was realistic. And now generative AI is entering the same en...