The moon her magic be, big sad face Of infinity An illuminated clay ball Manifesting many gentlemanly remarks
She kicks a star, clouds forgather In Scimitar shape, to round her cradle out Upside down any old time You can also let the moon fool you With imaginary orange-balls Of blazing imaginary light in fright
As eyeballs, hurt and forgathered Wink to the wince of the seeing Of a little sprightly otay Which projects spikes of light Out the round smooth blue balloon ball Full of mountains and moons
Deep as the ocean, high as the moon Low as the lowliest river lagoon Fish in the tar and pull in the Spar Billy the Bud and Hanshan Emperor And all wall moon gazers since Daniel Machree Yeats see
Gaze at the moon ocean marking the face In some cases, the moon is you In any case, the moon
Vibes and energy have become shorthand terms in a world with way too much data and way too many opinions. Those two little words are used all over the mainstream now; back in the day, they were mostly reserved for the new age/neohippie crowd, but over the last half-decade or so, they have spread far and wide. It’s a kind of compression tool: that person has a weird energy, we are in for a vibe shift, matching energy, just vibing, and on it goes. Vibe coding is red hot; all of us non-coders can now use AI to create disposable apps in an hour or two (and then spend five hours trying to debug it!) I’m also not sure the AIs can fully grasp the meaning of vibes yet; perhaps that is still a human stronghold?. Content that is more vibe-based than plot-based is on the rise; Season 3 of ‘The White Lotus’ and Season 3 of ‘The Bear’ are more about vibes than about what is happening—in both cases, often bad vibes—but still. It would not take many sentences to describe what plays out over all those hours of TV, you will have to feel the vibes to get it. With that said, I did not really like any of those Seasons, but loved S1 and S2 of both shows.
And, also loving the fact that this photo of Rick Rubin has become the universal symbol of vibe coding..
I don’t think these concepts will go away any time soon, after all what is the universe other than vibrating energy?
30 years since the first danish web agency Mondo saw the light of day. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal invited 100+ of the usual suspects, the original gangsters, the dreamers, the pioneers, the bizz people, designers, coders, visionaries. Less hair, more glasses than 30 years ago, clothing palette still mainly black and grey. Had a great time. It was quite touching seeing so many familiar and friendly faces in one place, several for the first time in decades.
I did a short talk based on a napkin drawing from 2003, done during the Reboot 6.0 conference in Copenhagen. The internet as ecosystem. It started as an open plain. The danish internet index Jubii had 200 links to danish sites when it launched in 1995. Things grew quickly, wild and uncontrolled. Some seeds need to be exposed to fire before they grow, so the big dot-com fire in 2000 destroyed a lot of value short-term, but also cleared the earth for new exciting things. And many of the trees in the internet forest were shallow cardboard cutouts.
The drawing took on its own life, I’ve seen it shared in a few places around the web; I found out Jeff Veen used it to explain Web 2.0 concept. I wrote him to ask where he got the drawing from, he replied;
“I honestly don’t know how I got your drawing — I think someone mailed it to me a couple years ago. I’ve been using it for a little while in my presentations, and it really resonates with people.”
Jeff was part of the early team at Hotwired, the place where the banner ad was invented (the Oppenheimer moment of the commercial internet :). As part of my prep, I asked ChatGPT to interpret my drawing, and it did so without any flaws. LLMs are good at getting metaphors and analogies, so I asked ChatGPT to elaborate on the net as ecosystem, this was the result (notice the fire here in 2025 is just as bad as the dot-com one..) What comes next? Hard to tell, but the vibe is shifting. Big time. Feels bigger and more profound and serious this time around.
Good conversations, a lot of laugning, and a fair bit of net nostalgia (you should also read my earlier post on this). It was always about the people and the culture. Something which Thomas saw with such clarity very early on. And not only that, he acted on that insight and engineered gatherings such as the Reboot conference, The Copenhagen Letter and the open space hub KLUB in Copenhagen.
MEGA- Make Europe Great Again. Take back the web. Do your own thing. Make stuff, it’s never been easier. Get to work.
Here’s to the next 30 years!
And in that spirit; perhaps you were there? Please share your perspectives and thoughts. Danish or english, your choice. Would love to hear from you ❤️
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