Richard Golian

1995-born. Charles University alum. Head of Performance at Mixit. 10+ years in marketing and data.

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The Digital Age: Technology, Innovation, and Society in Transition

37 articles

Why AI adoption fails when the tools are already there

The tools are there. You still will not use them.

25 July 2026·194 reads
How to Find Blogs Written by Real People in the Age of AI

Where the real people went on the internet.

19 July 2026·439 reads
The Dark Forest Internet, and Why I Built the Human Filter

Something alive on the dead internet.

18 July 2026·182 reads
Bot or Human? What My Analytics Revealed About Bot Traffic

How many of my visitors are actually human?

6 July 2026·1 692 reads
How to Blog in the Age of AI

Why I do not want to be a secondary source.

27 June 2026·552 reads
Dependent on AI: Are We Still Masters, or Slaves?

Are we masters of artificial intelligence, or its slaves?

21 June 2026·652 reads
AI slop: 16 of 27 sources in a consulting report did not check out

Is this the fault of AI? No. A person was responsible for the output.

12 June 2026·672 reads
Which Work Will AI Not Replace? Not Yet…

Someone simply has to sit at that computer.

10 June 2026·597 reads
How I work in 2026: working with AI agents or fully offline

Four days without digital. Here is what came out of it.

10.5.2026·1 229 reads
What AI Hides: AI Hallucinations, System Prompts and the Black Box Inside Every Model

Before you can teach AI to understand anything, you need to see what it is hiding from you.

11 April 2026·1 490 reads
When Your AI Agent Joins the Team. Who Gets to Teach It?

The moment other people needed access to it, the problem changed completely. It was no longer about whether the agent could learn. It was about who gets to teach it...

8 April 2026·1 909 reads
What Is an AI Agent? I Built One That Learns Between Sessions

I wanted to build an agent that doesn't just assist. One that acts...

4 April 2026·1 422 reads
Local AI and Ollama: What I Learned Running an LLM Locally

This is what I learned about local vs cloud AI, and why I switched to Claude Code...

3 April 2026·3 324 reads
How We Are Manipulated Without Knowing It: The Cognitive Biases That Make It Work

Manipulation without the feeling of being manipulated is the most effective kind...

28 February 2026 ·1 813 reads
Is AI Making Us Dumber? What Machines Did to Muscle, AI May Do to the Mind

It is a strange feeling. I have not fully processed it yet.

8 June 2025·1 644 reads
Why Investors Are Becoming Obsolete in the Age of AI

What was once valuable is losing its worth...

17 May 2025·2 577 reads
AI Literacy and the New Digital Divide: A Knowledge Gap Bigger Than Anyone Admits

The more I talk with friends and acquaintances about AI, the more I notice something alarming...

26 April 2025·3 350 reads
Is AI a Bubble? Why the Next Stock Market Crash Could Start With AI Job Losses

When someone loses their job, their sense of security collapses, so they sell their stocks...

20 April 2025·3 458 reads
Robotic Process Automation: Time to Let Real Robots Do the Robotic Work

This exchange struck a chord with me, enough that I am writing this post...

18 April 2025·3 050 reads
Correlation vs Causation: Why I Distrust Confident Talk of Certainty and Causality

He used words like “certainty” as if statistics were part of Newtonian physics...

23 March 2025·2 645 reads
AI vs Human Intelligence: The Real Difference

AI predicts what the next word should be. You understand.

22 March 2025·2 705 reads
AI-Powered Investigations: How OSINT Is Reshaping the Fight Against Crime

The more I think about it, the more I realize what a fundamental issue this is...

16 March 2025·2 773 reads
Fear Is Useful: Killer Robots and the AI Risks We Cannot Ignore

You might say I am being too fearmongering. Fear is useful.

15 March 2025·2 994 reads
Critical Thinking and Confirmation Bias: Why We No Longer Think, We Just Consume

More and more, I feel like real thinking is fading away...

8 March 2025·2 007 reads
What Is Performance Marketing – and How Is AI Changing It?

Performance marketing isn’t just about ads, data, and analytics...

6 March 2025·2 809 reads
AI, Inequality, and the Rise of Technofeudalism: A Future I Cannot Yet See

No matter how I look at the future, I see very few answers and far too many...

25 February 2025·3 184 reads
Meaning of Life in the Age of AI, When Machines Handle Everything

When this sense of meaning disappears, it leaves behind an emptiness that...

22 February 2025·4 652 reads

Common questions about this topic

How is AI changing the way we work?
AI is automating routine knowledge work — analysis, writing, coding, decision support. The shift is comparable to how machines transformed physical labor. Those who learn to work alongside AI will thrive; those who ignore it risk becoming irrelevant.
What is the digital divide?
The digital divide is the gap between people who understand and adapt to technology and those who do not. As AI accelerates, this gap is widening — not just between countries, but within societies, between generations, and even within professions.
Should I be worried about sharing data with AI?
Yes. Every prompt you send to an AI service potentially becomes training data. Sensitive personal, financial or business information should never be shared with cloud-based AI models unless you understand their data policies and have appropriate safeguards.
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