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Paul van Gool

@pvgool

articles: 18
total claps: 804
top claps: 293
avg read: 4.1 min
paywalled: 17
active: 2024-11-08 → 2026-06-30

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AI · AI · General · 10 CNT · Content Marketing · 7 LLM · Large Language Models · 6 🔒 · Cybersecurity · 3 PHI · Philosophy · 3 PSY · Psychology · 3 ECO · Economy · General · 3 LIT · Literature & Writing · 3

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#artificial-intelligence ·8 #content-creation ·6 #future-of-work ·4 #technical-skills ·3 #productivity ·3 #google ·3 #medium ·2 #writing ·2 #self-improvement ·2 #digital-marketing ·2

PA Paul van Gool · Never Stop Writing

I Say Goodbye to All My Readers

I will be gone from Medium

Nov 08, 2024 · 1 min read · 293 claps #goodbye #holidays #germany

GEN HUM LIF

PA Paul van Gool

Medium Is No Longer Working for You. It’s Working for Itself.

What happened to your reach and earnings in 2025, and why it will keep happening

Apr 09, 2026 · 3 min read · 89 claps paywalled #medium #writing #enshittification

Medium Is No Longer Working for You. It’s Working for Itself.

SCI TCH LIF

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

Why Europe Is Rushing to Replace Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace

Your content lives on American servers. A European alternative launches June 9.

May 31, 2026 · 6 min read · 84 claps paywalled #europe #technology #productivity

Why Europe Is Rushing to Replace Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace

AI MKT LIF

PA Paul van Gool

All Three Major AI Assistants Are Now on Your Desktop. Here Is What That Actually Means.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini have all moved to the desktop. The competition is no longer about capability. It is about presence.

Apr 20, 2026 · 4 min read · 83 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #content-creation #productivity

All Three Major AI Assistants Are Now on Your Desktop. Here Is What That Actually Means.

AI MDA

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

Google’s Handy AI Podcast Tool Now Also Makes Entire Videos

NotebookLM transforms long, boring texts into clear explanation videos

Aug 05, 2025 · 2 min read · 63 claps paywalled #notebooklm #videos #google

Google’s Handy AI Podcast Tool Now Also Makes Entire Videos

MKT HUM LIF MDA

PA Paul van Gool

Premeditatio Malorum: The Stoic Practice That Turns Platform Risk Into a Plan

What a Roman philosopher knew about platform risk that most creators still don’t.

Apr 06, 2026 · 5 min read · 60 claps paywalled #stoicism #content-creation #resilience

Premeditatio Malorum: The Stoic Practice That Turns Platform Risk Into a Plan

MKT ECO LIF

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

Buy Me a Coffee grew up — and most creators missed it

Buy Me A Coffee has grown beyond the original tip jar being a full monetisation layer for your content

May 12, 2026 · 2 min read · 51 claps paywalled #buy-me-a-coffee #content-creation #marketing

Buy Me a Coffee grew up — and most creators missed it

AI SOC

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

How to use the 2nd Edition of Google’s Gemini Prompt Guide

Master the new 2nd edition framework to turn Gemini into a collaborative editor that understands your unique creative voice.

Feb 13, 2026 · 3 min read · 41 claps paywalled #technical-skills #writing-prompts #guides-and-tutorials

How to use the 2nd Edition of Google’s Gemini Prompt Guide

AI MDA HUM

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

How to Audit Your Medium Archive With AI in One Afternoon

Five prompts that turn hundreds of articles into a structured content library

Jun 04, 2026 · 2 min read · 38 claps paywalled #medium #archive #artificial-intelligence

How to Audit Your Medium Archive With AI in One Afternoon

AI TCH HUM

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

The Pope Just Wrote the Most Important Document on AI You Haven’t Read Yet

Magnifica Humanitas is Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, a sweeping, 89-paragraph theological and social manifesto on artificial…

May 25, 2026 · 12 min read · 1 claps paywalled #pope-leo-xiv #artificial-intelligence #catholic-social-teaching

The Pope Just Wrote the Most Important Document on AI You Haven’t Read Yet

TCH SOC AI

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

Chrome installs a secret 4GB AI on your computer — and you can’t stop it

Google’s Gemini Nano download raises serious questions about privacy, consent, and whether European law has any teeth

May 11, 2026 · 5 min read · 1 claps paywalled #google #download #privacy

Chrome installs a secret 4GB AI on your computer — and you can’t stop it

MKT HUM

PA Paul van Gool

How Epictetus Would Handle a Bad Comment Section

Epictetus survived actual powerlessness. His framework for handling criticism still works — on your comment section.

Apr 14, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #stoicism #writing #content-creation

How Epictetus Would Handle a Bad Comment Section

AI MKT ECO HUM

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

How To Write Headlines to Win Attention from Humans and AI

Master the art of the ‘Digital Gateway’ using proven psychological triggers and the latest AI-driven optimization tools.

Feb 25, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps paywalled #writing-skills #headlines #writing-tips

How To Write Headlines to Win Attention from Humans and AI

AI MKT TCH

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

Bots now run the web. Cloudflare’s fix could lock out your AI tools.

A new protocol called PACT sorts web traffic into welcome and unwelcome. The AI agents you send out to research and curate are on the wrong…

Jun 30, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps paywalled #aritificial-intelligence #cloudflare #creator-economy

Bots now run the web. Cloudflare’s fix could lock out your AI tools.

AI MKT

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

Claude Fabel 5: a better model, but not necessarily for you

What a head-to-head test against Opus 4.8 actually reveals about daily content work

Jun 11, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps paywalled #claude #anthropic-claude #content-creation

Claude Fabel 5: a better model, but not necessarily for you

AI LIF

PA Paul van Gool · The Carefree Writer

From scribbles to searchable ideas: how Google’s InkSight matured

Bridging the gap between your physical notebook and digital workflow with refined AI intelligence.

Feb 12, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps paywalled #technical-skills #productivity #google

From scribbles to searchable ideas: how Google’s InkSight matured

AI TCH ECO

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

Why the new Claude plugins caused a 285 billion dollar market meltdown

Unlock the power of Claude plugins to automate complex marketing tasks while protecting your unique professional voice.

Feb 05, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps paywalled #technical-skills #anthropic-claude #ai-agent

Why the new Claude plugins caused a 285 billion dollar market meltdown

PA Paul van Gool · Paul’s World

OpenAI’s Super App Is No Longer a Rumour

I wrote about this in March. Now it’s official, and bigger than expected.

Jun 08, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps paywalled #openai #chatgpt #future-of-work