All essays
Writing on AI, maturity, and meaning.
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You Were Made For This
AI is not taking the world. It is clarifying it — revealing what has always mattered most. Five missions for the people willing to step into what only they can do.
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Four Things Leaders Must Get Right on Automation and AI
The automation opportunity is not just a growth play. For many organisations it is increasingly a capacity question. What separates transformation that lasts from programmes that fail to return benefits.
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Nothing Has Changed in the Town of Bedrock
In the space of seven days in May 2026, the two most consequential AI companies on the planet both announced they were getting into consulting. The model alone is not getting the job done.
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Shiny
On all things shiny and how they can burn. A personal essay on AI obsession, the seductive danger of irresistible tools, and why creation without renewal is depletion dressed up as productivity.
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The craft loop
A six-phase workflow for producing complex, high-quality artefacts in a single working session — when domain expertise and AI capability operate in genuine tandem.
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Out of the strong
On the full cost of AI, the fragility of what we build, and why that might be exactly the point.
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The reset button
On transition, doubt, and the value you can't see in yourself.
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Origin & destination
On knowing where you came from, and why it matters more than ever.
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On building AI that activates rather than replaces
If the goal is human flourishing, every adoption decision becomes a question about who gets activated and what they get to keep.
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Towards more than human
On the different classes of Human + AI engagement emerging, and why agency matters more than adoption.
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The time traveller
On organisational maturity, the debt beneath every AI initiative, and the future headline we are still in time to avoid.
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Don't let fear steer the ship
On navigating pressure, difficult waters, and the choice to hold your course when the sea turns rough.
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Who's building the next SMEs?
On capability debt, the silent gap GenAI and remote work are widening, and four structural moves to close it.
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The real fight is adoption
Data technology keeps getting blamed for everyone else's bad habits. The question isn't whether the tech is good. It's whether we're ready to adopt it properly.
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Stewards, Not Heroes (The Environment)
You can't architect a forest; you can only plant it and protect the soil. On poisoned cultures, intentional stewardship, and the long game of building belonging.
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The Invoice (Relational Stewardship)
Community is expensive. If you think it's free, you're probably looking at a social club. On the real cost of building human architecture that lasts.
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Human Architecture (Foundations)
Most architecture thinking ignores the human kind. On community as engineered infrastructure, the cost of disconnection, and why belonging doesn't just happen.