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Welcome to meiersworld.de
Hi, I'm Patrick Meier – most people call me Paddy. meiersworld.de is my blog about digital media, programmatic advertising, AI and books.
Most of the site is written in German. But a growing part is available in English: translated articles, videos and a set of small AI tools you can try right away. This page collects all of it.
Latest articles in English
I found myself standing in front of a bottle of Peter Lehmann Portrait Shiraz in a supermarket, a wine I hadn't seen since the…
I stumbled on Thorstein Veblen’s work while listening to a podcast about class and status symbols. His 1899 theories about leisure and waste still…
I came across a post about what's now possible with AI, but one sentence stuck with me: the real challenge isn't what the tools…
I almost missed it while we were debating at the Frankfurt Book Fair: Amazon quietly imposed a two-book-per-week limit on Kindle Direct Publishing. No…
I spent Saturday at the Frankfurt Book Fair, not chasing KPIs but queuing for a book with tinted pages — a line that felt…
I'm sitting in on a panel about RAG as a game changer, watching capitalism unfold without shame. One hall celebrates AI as a business…
Tools & interactive pages
- AI activity meiersworld.de Which AI systems read this site, and what they look for – live data from my crawler log.
- AI Molecule Interactive relationship networks for series, books and more.
- English AI Books List A public list of books and how AI was (or wasn't) involved in writing them.
- Expropriation A strategy game: corporations versus political expropriation.
- Literature Search Search academic literature in plain English, powered by OpenAlex.
- Memory_englische_Version A memory game with pictures from this site.
- Mini Proofreader Quick proofreading plus an SEO/GEO quality check for short texts.
- Poem Summary english Turn an article into a haiku, limerick or other short poem.