In memoriam, Richard Medic

Memorium for a friend: "In late October Richard Medic caught meningitis in Bosnia and died at the age of 50. The only way I can try to process that is to write this."

He died just at the time (I thought) when "large M-shaped cracks (Metaverse, Musk) started forming in the walled gardens’ walls ... we just might see a return to the open web, where innovators like Richard actually have a chance to build new things".

He was a unique individual in Brussels, able to "see things more clearly than most... an unerring instinct for events ... I still don’t know what it means that the most supportive Europeans she [ Madelina Kay (aka EU Supergirl)] found in the Brussels Bubble were both Australian...

If I learn anything from this, let me not take my friends for granted, to not rely on social media to stay in touch, but to reach out and see them again face2face, today rather than tomorrow, this week rather than next year."

Update: Two years later, I haven't.