A great many of you have become paying subscribers in recent weeks. That is not a detail. It is a signal.
But commenting is not understanding. And understanding is what will make the difference. For yourself. For your company. For society as a whole.
That urgency is what made me change. For years, I worked on the digital sovereignty of France and Europe. I still believe that is the mission, but waiting for it to come from the top means losing time we no longer have. The announcements are empty. There is no money. There is no plan.
So let us start with the three things that depend on us.
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Our personal digital sovereignty, to prepare for an Internet that is no longer as open or as benevolent as it used to be.
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Our hyperproductivity with agentic AI.
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Our cognitive autonomy, our ability to hold on to these new superpowers whatever happens to the technology, to commercial policies or to geopolitics.
For paying members, I am creating the Club des Résilients: a space to think together, share what we are learning in the field, and build the reflexes that will make the difference when the ground shakes, and it will shake.
The price will go up, because the value of what is being built here already exceeds what you pay.
Current subscribers will keep their rate.
I will cover digital sovereignty once a month, barring major news. But I am going to devote more space to what seems to me the real subject of 2026: the concrete consequences of these tools' arrival on our lives, our jobs and our organizations.
Take the arrival of the new Claude Code Security, which is causing the same earthquake in the cybersecurity world that Claude Cowork caused in consulting and finance. When you know that Claude was used by the Pentagon via Palantir in the operation that blacked out Caracas and captured Maduro, you realize we have changed eras.
The sovereignty debate itself has changed in nature and merged with the debate on cognitive autonomy. We have been talking about it for two years, but now we are there.
Come along with us, and join those who want to stay in control in a world that is spinning out of control.
Subscribe nowThis week, we dig deeper together into this discovery of hyperproductivity. ↓
How will the age of hyperproductivity change our daily lives?
For two weeks, I have been living in a bubble of hyperproductivity. I switched to a Max version of Claude combined with OpenAI's new Codex (thank you, Romain) and I did in a few days what I had not managed in a few months. That is not a metaphor.
This new generation of service is different from previous iterations.
For the first time, we are working with a mirror of ourselves, able to match our intellect and our speed of thought. And sometimes it goes even faster than we do, which pulls us upward, cognitively speaking.
I found myself stringing together hours and hours of productive work without flinching, pushing ever further, challenging some of the answers with other LLMs and with my own notes.
But that intensity has a cost: less deep sleep, a few migraines at the start. And at the same time, an unprecedented clarity on the subjects at hand, as if my thought circuits had reorganized themselves. A feeling of fullness I had not anticipated.
The real problem is not the tool. It is what we do with it.
Many people throw themselves into these tools with no method and end up drowning. Too many documents, too many ideas explored too deeply too fast, a rabbit hole of possibilities that exhausts more than it liberates. The feeling of helplessness that follows is not a technical problem: it is a problem of discipline and rituals.
Because hyperproductivity cannot be improvised. It requires deciding up front what you want to produce, at what pace and with what guardrails. I have always preferred paper for thinking. These tools have not changed that. They have simply made execution faster and intellectual work more satisfying.
There is also a kind of normalization that sets in, which you can adjust through skills and by building your own working method, that is, by deciding what the acceptable average level of work is that lets you move forward. (see the end of the newsletter)
The coming divide.
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