For most of my career, your impact grew as you increased your team's headcount. If you wanted to do more, you had to manage more. Senior meant managing people who managed people. The org chart was the …
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AI Transformation Is a Sequencing Problem
Every business I know is preparing to transform with AI. Very few are actually transforming. The pattern is always the same: someone forms a working group. They commission a governance framework. They …
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The Wrong Bottleneck
The AI industry is obsessed with throughput. How fast can a model generate tokens? How cheaply? How many can fit in a context window? These are the questions animating billions in investment and …
The Meeting That Can’t Be Automated
I spent six weeks building a presentation about AI. I talk about summarising online classes, creating tasks in real time for educators, algorithms that tell a consultant whether a student is likely to …
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AI Is Making Education Faster. It Could Make It Different.
I just read Mark House's recent post about education and felt the tingle of recognition. I worked with Mark, and lived through some of those years alongside him. Forty years of incremental change. …
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Get In the Chariot
The highest-paid sportsman in the history of human civilisation was a Roman charioteer named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. He competed in 4,257 races, won 1,462 of them, and retired with 35,863,120 …