No. 01
TechnologySeptember 10, 2026
Apple's Siri delay: how to tell a good wait from a stall
Apple's Siri delay is a useful test for your AI roadmap. A good wait names the failure it fixes and proves it. A stall just books another review date.
Topic
AI
144 essays
No. 02
BusinessSeptember 7, 2026
The AI perception gap: why executives see magic and workers see busywork
Executives say AI saves them hours a week; staff say it saves nothing. That gap measures how well bad news travels upward in a business, not the tool.
No. 03
BusinessSeptember 6, 2026
The end of T-shaped employees: what replaces them in an AI-first world
T-shaped hiring assumed humans did the work. Now that AI does the first pass, hire people who can frame problems, direct systems and judge the output.
No. 04
BusinessSeptember 4, 2026
The AI consulting trap: why most advisors are selling tool training when you need decision redesign
OpenAI just signed McKinsey, BCG, Accenture and Capgemini to sell its agents. Most AI consulting is training in disguise. Here is what to buy instead.
No. 05
BusinessAugust 31, 2026
Musk's five-step algorithm for cutting bureaucracy — and what AI changes about it
Musk's five-step algorithm says automate last. With AI agents the first four steps matter even more: automation amplifies whatever process it's given.
No. 06
BusinessAugust 29, 2026
The inflated-ARR problem: why AI startup revenue metrics are a house of cards
AI startups are announcing ARR figures that just aren't revenue. How the metric got stretched, why it matters, and what to ask vendors before you buy.
No. 07
TechnologyAugust 27, 2026
The anti-sycophancy playbook: how to tune AI assistants for operators, not therapy
Consumer AI is tuned to flatter you. Here's how to retune your assistants to argue back — system prompts, honest evals and an assistant-adviser split.
No. 08
MarketingAugust 26, 2026
ChatGPT goes self-serve: what happens when the assistant becomes an ad channel
ChatGPT now sells ads self-serve. Free AI recommendations were an introductory offer — what UK SMBs should be testing now, while the channel is cheap.
No. 09
BusinessAugust 24, 2026
The AI stigma problem: watermarks, snitch culture, and why openness beats detection
AI watermarks are about to make workplace AI use checkable. Why stigma and snitch culture slow AI adoption — and why openness beats detection at work.
No. 10
BusinessAugust 23, 2026
The AI pivot test: how to tell real transformation from a rebrand with a chatbot
Every company now claims to be an AI company. A practical five-point test to tell genuine AI transformation from a rebrand with just a chatbot on top.
No. 11
BusinessAugust 21, 2026
The canary in the outsourcing mine: why Indian IT is feeling AI first
Indian IT is feeling AI first because outsourced work was already commoditised. The simple test that explains its squeeze also maps your own exposure.
No. 12
BusinessAugust 19, 2026
When your workforce becomes the training data
Staff using AI at work are training the systems that may replace them. Why the bargain deserves daylight and what workers and employers should do now.
No. 13
BusinessAugust 17, 2026
An apartment building full of GPUs: how the money behind AI capex thinks
Investors price AI data centres like apartment buildings full of GPUs. Here is the landlord logic, where it leaks, and how to build so you can switch.
No. 14
BusinessAugust 16, 2026
The knowledge moat: why your institutional knowledge matters more than which AI model you pick
Forget the GPT vs Claude debate. The businesses winning with AI documented how they work first — institutional knowledge is the real competitive moat.
No. 15
TechnologyAugust 14, 2026
Think at the speed of speech: why voice input changes everything about AI prompting
Speaking is three times faster than typing, and GPT-Live's full-duplex voice finally keeps up — how to make voice input your default way to prompt AI.
No. 16
TechnologyAugust 12, 2026
Jagged intelligence: why your AI can ace the interview but fail the job
AI can ace one task and fail the next. Here's why the interview heuristic misleads you, and how to map your jagged frontier before trusting the tools.
No. 17
BusinessAugust 9, 2026
The E-Myth revisited (again): ten lessons for the AI age in one read
Ten articles on Gerber's E-Myth, condensed into one practical read: capability maps, role specifications, governance, and why founders now stay close.
No. 18
TechnologyAugust 7, 2026
Context engineering: the skill that replaced prompt engineering
Prompt engineering had its moment. Context engineering — giving AI the right information rather than cleverer wording — is the skill that matters now.
No. 19
BusinessAugust 6, 2026
The permission layer: agent access just became a product decision
A court just ruled AI shopping agents are legally their users. Whether agents can buy from your site is now a product decision, so make it on purpose.
No. 20
BusinessAugust 5, 2026
AI didn't break the graduate job market. Remote work broke the apprenticeship model.
The New York Fed says remote work, not AI, explains most graduate unemployment. The accidental apprenticeship has gone — here's how to rebuild it now.
No. 21
BusinessAugust 3, 2026
The efficiency trap: why AI should change what you do, not just how fast you do it
Most AI adoption just speeds up work that shouldn't exist. Drucker wrote the test for this back in 1963 — AI has finally made the answer cheap to get.
No. 22
TechnologyAugust 2, 2026
When software stops being a menu
Menus did two jobs and we only ever complained about one. As AI removes them, discoverability stops being a layout problem and becomes a teaching one.
No. 23
MarketingJuly 28, 2026
The agent-ready website: agents read your page, not your metadata
Google doesn't read llms.txt, and schema won't get you cited. What an agent-ready website actually needs today, and the new decision it forces on you.
No. 24
TechnologyJuly 27, 2026
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook — what actually changed
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook, and every notebook now gets a cloud computer that runs code on your documents. What changed and what to test first.
No. 25
BusinessJuly 27, 2026
Your AI strategy is probably theatre — and your employees know it
Your AI strategy is probably theatre, and your employees see straight through it. That visibility is a real cost, in trust, credibility, and adoption.
No. 26
BusinessJuly 27, 2026
How to train your team for AI adoption without causing panic
AI adoption is a people problem, not a tools one. A practical guide to getting your whole team using AI without panic: boring pilots, safety, buddies.
No. 27
BusinessJuly 26, 2026
The one-person enterprise: how AI lets small businesses punch above their weight
Staying small used to mean staying limited. AI has broken that link. How the one-person enterprise competes with far bigger teams, and where it can't.
No. 28
BusinessJuly 22, 2026
The MCP gives you the voice; the skill gives you the judgement
A brand-voice connector pipes your tone into every AI tool, but it can't judge when not to apply it. That judgement is policy — a layer you still own.
No. 29
Personal DevelopmentJuly 21, 2026
Every day is April Fools' Day now — the discipline of discernment
April Fools' taught me a filter for what seems almost believable. AI gave every day that texture. The answer is discernment, not cynicism, on purpose.
No. 30
TechnologyJuly 19, 2026
Agent memory: why your AI has amnesia and what to do about it
Your AI agent forgets everything the moment a session ends. Here are the four kinds of memory it actually needs, and the practical ways to build each.
No. 31
MarketingJuly 16, 2026
The brand-voice protocol problem: why your AI stack fragments your tone
AI didn't break your brand voice — it exposed that you never really had one. Tools like Brivvy fix distribution, but defining a voice is still on you.
No. 32
BusinessJuly 14, 2026
Your AI bill has stopped being a licence and started being a meter
AI has stopped behaving like software and started behaving like a raw material. Budget it as a variable cost, cap it and meter only what pays its way.
No. 33
BusinessJuly 7, 2026
Triage, not execution — the new shape of knowledge work
Knowledge work is shifting from doing to triage: approve, redirect, audit. Gerber saw this coming, and AI has made it impossible to keep deferring it.
No. 34
MarketingJuly 6, 2026
AI-washing your own shopfront: the credibility cost of overclaiming
Relabelling ordinary automation as 'AI' is tempting, but buyers now discount the word. Honest, specific positioning beats the rebrand for small firms.
No. 35
BusinessJuly 3, 2026
The $50k-hire fiction: what an AI stack actually replaces — and what it doesn't
The 'AI replaces a $50k hire' lists see only tasks. A salary also buys judgement and accountability: the real work you can't hand to a stack of tools.
No. 36
BusinessJune 30, 2026
Agent sprawl is the new shadow IT — and it's coming from inside the house
Big firms survive AI agent sprawl because they have a CIO; your small business doesn't. Here's a simple three-step protocol to contain it by yourself.
No. 37
BusinessJune 28, 2026
The cognitive tax: why AI power users are burning out
AI was meant to lighten the mental load. For its heaviest users it's added a hidden one — supervising the machines. Here's how to set sane boundaries.
No. 38
BusinessJune 26, 2026
When your customer weaponises ChatGPT — the DoorDash refund scam and the new trust direction
A customer faked a raw-chicken photo with ChatGPT to scam a DoorDash refund. AI refund fraud has flipped the trust playbook every small business runs.
No. 39
BusinessJune 25, 2026
The agentic convergence trap: when everyone uses the same AI, nobody has an edge
The agentic convergence trap: when every rival runs the same AI, the plans converge. Your real edge is judgement, taste and the data nobody else owns.
No. 40
TechnologyJune 24, 2026
The great dispersion
AI isn't ending software development. It's scattering it out of the tech giants and into thousands of ordinary companies — and that is the better job.
No. 41
TechnologyJune 23, 2026
Six labs, one product: how to choose an AI tool when they all do the same thing
Six AI labs now ship the same agent. When the demos all look alike, choose on workflow fit, switching cost, data gravity and team habit, not features.
No. 42
BusinessJune 22, 2026
AI and jobs: the disruption is real, but we are pointing at the wrong people
The AI and jobs panic points at the bottom rung. The real squeeze is in the middle, the reskilling remedy is hollow, and much of it is simply theatre.
No. 43
Personal DevelopmentJune 21, 2026
The skills that actually matter in the AI era — and why corporate training keeps missing them
The skills that pay off in AI work — judgement, prompt design, translation and restraint — can't be certified. That's why training keeps missing them.
No. 44
TechnologyJune 20, 2026
We are all directors now
AI gives everyone a film crew. The scarce job left is direction, and the film director is the best role model any of us have for surviving it all now.
No. 45
TechnologyJune 18, 2026
The Claude Cowork playbook: a non-developer's guide to desktop AI automation
A practical guide to using Claude Cowork: what it does well, where it still trips up, and how to brief it so it actually does finish the work for you.
No. 46
MarketingJune 16, 2026
Is your brand invisible in the answer engine? The AEO cliff-edge is now
A third of B2B buyers now find vendors through AI chatbots. The real shift isn't AEO — it's that you've lost the ability to track your own visibility.
No. 47
BusinessJune 12, 2026
The AI doom cycle: why your team is stuck at stage 3
A team going quiet on AI isn't proof the tools failed. It's stage three of the doom cycle: a predictable adoption valley, and a management job to fix.
No. 48
BusinessJune 11, 2026
GitLab is paying $35 million to become a small business
GitLab's restructuring spends $35m turning a 2,500-person business into 60 small teams. Small firms already have that shape. Here's how to keep yours.
No. 49
MarketingJune 9, 2026
The 97/78 trust gap: why AI-made marketing unsettles your customers
Canva found 97% of marketers use AI daily, 78% of consumers wish they wouldn't. Why AI-made marketing unsettles customers and how to keep their trust.
No. 50
BusinessJune 8, 2026
The end of cheap AI: how the subsidy era ending changes the SMB playbook
The AI subsidy era is ending and frontier-model bills are rising fast. A 90-day routing playbook to keep your SMB's AI costs predictable, not painful.
No. 51
BusinessJune 3, 2026
Claude for Small Business removes every barrier but the one that matters
Anthropic's Claude for Small Business is the best AI-employees pitch yet. But it can't define your work for you, and that was always the real barrier.
No. 52
TechnologyJune 2, 2026
The part you're not choosing
Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini each wrap a model inside a product. Learn to tell the layers apart and you can lower your AI spend and buy software wisely.
No. 53
BusinessMay 31, 2026
The UK's £500M bet: what the Sovereign AI Fund gets right — and still gets wrong
The UK's £500M Sovereign AI Fund is the right call on speed, compute and visas — but it doesn't fix the reason British AI is worth more in California.
No. 54
MarketingMay 29, 2026
The 93% isn't waste — it's funding the dashboard
Gary Vee's 93% marketing waste figure is real, but the 20% reallocation fix won't happen — that wasted spend is funding the dashboard the board reads.
No. 55
BusinessMay 23, 2026
AI's real superpower isn't doing the work — it's killing the coordination tax
AI's real return isn't automating tasks. It removes the coordination tax of meetings, briefings and approvals — the saving an ROI dashboard won't see.
No. 56
MarketingMay 21, 2026
Marketing's two-front war: when AI disrupts both the tools and the audience
AI is reshaping marketing on two fronts: the tools your team uses and the audience you reach. Most teams watch just one and miss the one that matters.
No. 57
BusinessMay 20, 2026
AI duty of care is now a product decision, not a legal afterthought
A wrongful-death suit over Google's Gemini shows AI safety is product architecture. What every team that ships an AI copilot must build in, right now.
No. 58
TechnologyMay 17, 2026
The swarm tax: when adding agents stops being architecture and starts being theatre
Stanford research finds single agents usually beat multi-agent swarms on equal compute. The swarm tax is architecture inflation eating your AI margin.
No. 59
BusinessMay 14, 2026
The cognitive surrender problem: why AI tools are making us worse at thinking
Research shows heavy AI users are losing the thinking habits that made them valuable. The competitive edge goes to those who use it without surrender.
No. 60
BusinessMay 8, 2026
The judgement gap: why AI advice helps the best entrepreneurs and hurts the rest
AI advice helps the best entrepreneurs and hurts the rest. A 2026 MIT Sloan Kenya field study, plus a five-step kit to second-check AI before you act.
No. 61
MarketingMay 8, 2026
Imperfectly human: typos as the new trust signal
As AI commoditises polish, the new premium trust signal in B2B writing is visible evidence of a real human author. Here is why typos now signal trust.
No. 62
BusinessMay 5, 2026
AI snitch: when the Met's Palantir tool hunts the Met
The Met's Palantir AI flagged hundreds of officers in a week. Workplace AI surveillance has crossed into the UK public sector — what it means for you.
No. 63
TechnologyMay 4, 2026
Ezra Klein is right about the AI job apocalypse. He's understating what comes instead.
Ezra Klein says AI won't cause mass unemployment. He's right at the top — understating how the very bottom rung of the career ladder is being removed.
No. 64
BusinessMay 4, 2026
The $3 frontier: what DeepSeek V4 does to your 2026 AI budget
DeepSeek V4-Pro just matched Opus 4.7 on coding at a seventh of the cost. The four-bucket framework for rewriting your 2026 AI budget — by Q3 ideally.
No. 65
Personal DevelopmentMay 1, 2026
When your employer mandates AI: a practical survival guide
Your employer mandated AI but didn't say how. Strategic adoption beats compliance — here's what to ask, where to start, and what to keep for yourself.
No. 66
TechnologyApril 27, 2026
Good citizen, not just good assistant: the quiet argument over what AI should be for
OpenAI and Anthropic disagree on whether AI should act on its own initiative for societal good. Why this gap matters when choosing an AI vendor today.
No. 67
BusinessApril 25, 2026
Shadow agents: the enterprise governance crisis nobody planned for
Shadow AI agents running on staff laptops with live credentials to company systems. KiloClaw named the crisis — and most governance is lagging behind.
No. 68
BusinessApril 23, 2026
The platform tax: what Anthropic's OpenClaw ban means for agent economics
Anthropic just cut OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions on 4 April. The platform tax has arrived — and it changes how to build on any AI provider today.
No. 69
Personal DevelopmentApril 21, 2026
The productivity paradox: what if AI just makes us work harder?
Tim Harford asked if AI will finally give us leisure or just make us busier. Here's how to audit your own AI-adjusted working week before it fills up.
No. 70
BusinessApril 20, 2026
The 93/7 problem: why AI maturity is a people story, not a technology story
93% of AI spend lands on infrastructure, 7% on people. Why the unphotogenic work of retraining people around AI is where the real value actually sits.
No. 71
MarketingApril 19, 2026
AI didn't break marketing — it exposed what wasn't working
AI didn't break marketing. It exposed which content was built on substance and which was noise. A practical audit for business leaders, not just CMOs.
No. 72
TechnologyApril 15, 2026
The clean-room loophole: how agentic coding tools could end software copyright
AI coding agents rewrite copyrighted software from scratch in days, sidestepping copyleft — the clean-room loophole that could end software copyright.
No. 73
BusinessApril 13, 2026
The layoff theatre: why CEOs love blaming AI for job cuts they were going to make anyway
Nearly 80,000 tech jobs cut in Q1 2026, half blamed on AI. Even OpenAI's CEO calls it AI-washing. A simple test separates theatre from transformation.
No. 74
TechnologyApril 11, 2026
Claude Managed Agents and the infrastructure moment
Anthropic shipped Managed Agents in public beta this week. Not a capability breakthrough, but a friction breakthrough - and why friction matters more.
No. 75
BusinessApril 9, 2026
The agentic commerce reality check: what Walmart learned the hard way
Walmart's ChatGPT checkout converted three times worse than its own website. The Sparky pivot reveals a fundamental truth about who controls commerce.
No. 76
TechnologyApril 7, 2026
The AI-first engineering org: 170% throughput at 80% headcount
Zencoder's team went from 36 engineers to 30 and nearly doubled throughput. A data-backed look at what AI-first software development really means now.
No. 77
TechnologyApril 6, 2026
NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook) just became a presentation tool — here's how to actually use it
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook — and it still turns documents into PowerPoint decks in minutes. What changed with the rename, what didn't, and why.
No. 78
BusinessApril 4, 2026
When AI becomes the manager: why the middle management squeeze is the real disruption
Amazon cut 14,000 jobs citing AI, then Pinterest and HP. The real squeeze lands on middle management, not entry level — and on the trust trap beneath.
No. 79
BusinessApril 2, 2026
Project Prometheus: why Bezos is betting $100 billion on factories, not chatbots
Bezos is raising $100 billion to buy manufacturers and rebuild them with AI. Why industrial AI, not chatbots, is the smart money bet in 2026.
No. 80
BusinessApril 1, 2026
The reskilling myth: why retraining won't save us from AI displacement
Corporate reskilling programmes have never worked at scale. The evidence is clear, the timelines impossible, and the honest conversation long overdue.
No. 81
BusinessMarch 30, 2026
Why agents mean this isn't a bubble — and what that means for your business
AI agents have rewritten the compute equation permanently. Ben Thompson argues this isn't a bubble — and your business strategy needs to catch up now.
No. 82
MarketingMarch 29, 2026
The agent-first brand: why your next customer won't have eyes
By 2028, Gartner predicts 90% of B2B buying flows through AI agents. Your brand now needs a schema as much as a soul. Most marketers aren't ready yet.
No. 83
TechnologyMarch 28, 2026
The march of nines: what 99.999% AI reliability actually requires
Each nine of AI reliability costs as much work as the one before it. Most businesses are at 90%. The march to production-grade agents is brutal maths.
No. 84
BusinessMarch 27, 2026
The graduation cliff: what happens when entry-level jobs disappear
One in five companies have stopped hiring graduates because of AI. The real cost is a missing generation of leaders who never learnt the fundamentals.
No. 85
TechnologyMarch 22, 2026
The five levels of agentic software: where most businesses actually are
Most businesses think their agentic AI is at level three. Most are at one. A five-level framework for honest self-assessment and practical next steps.
No. 86
TechnologyMarch 19, 2026
The coding agent reality check: this is the compiler moment
AI coding crossed a threshold in late 2025. This isn't a productivity tool — it's the most transformative shift since the compiler. Sceptics are late.
No. 87
BusinessMarch 17, 2026
Agentic loops: the next operating system for your business
Forget workflows — AI agents run decision loops. Map where autonomous cycles belong inside your business, and you will outpace everyone else doing it.
No. 88
BusinessMarch 16, 2026
The agentic readiness gap: 85% of enterprises want agents, 76% can't support them
85% of enterprises want agentic AI but 76% lack the operational foundation. Why process visibility matters more than model capability.
No. 89
TechnologyMarch 15, 2026
The AI literacy gap: why most people use a Ferrari like a bicycle
Most people use AI like a Ferrari in first gear. The literacy gap isn't about access — it's about understanding what these tools can do.
No. 90
TechnologyMarch 14, 2026
The context window problem: why your AI conversation hits a wall
Long AI chats drift, forget instructions and go in circles. Why the context window problem happens, what breaks first, and the habits that prevent it.
No. 91
TechnologyMarch 13, 2026
AI 2027 one year on: what the forecasters got right and wrong
A year on, the AI 2027 forecasters graded their own predictions at 58–66% of pace. Agents and autonomous coding arrived; the AGI runway looks messier.
No. 92
TechnologyMarch 12, 2026
Cognitive debt: the hidden cost of letting AI write your code
AI writes code faster than teams can absorb it. That comprehension gap becomes cognitive debt, slowing software work when change arrives. In practice.
No. 93
TechnologyMarch 10, 2026
Frequent use of AI in the workplace continued to rise in Q4
Frequent AI use rose again in Q4, but the real story is where it becomes habitual. That is where management, review and workflow design matter.
No. 94
BusinessMarch 9, 2026
Y2K was a bug — AI is a system shock
Y2K had a deadline. AI doesn’t. The real challenge isn’t fixing a bug — it’s managing work that now moves faster than your controls.
No. 95
TechnologyMarch 7, 2026
Most of your AI work doesn't need a frontier model
80–90% of your AI tasks don't need a frontier model. Smart routing saves real money without cutting quality, but someone has to own the decision.
No. 96
TechnologyMarch 7, 2026
Why your team stopped using Google’s AI tools (and what to do about it)
A practical guide to underused Google Workspace AI features and how to apply them this week.
No. 97
BusinessMarch 6, 2026
The $154 billion mistake: why 80% of companies get nothing from AI
Most AI pilots return nothing. The five execution failures behind the $154 billion mistake — and the practical playbook to fix them in 90 days.
No. 98
BusinessMarch 2, 2026
The Anthropic effect: what happens when your AI provider gets blacklisted
The US military couldn't stop using Claude even after a presidential ban. If they can't switch AI providers overnight, what chance does your business have?
No. 99
BusinessFebruary 27, 2026
When a profitable company fires half its people: what Block just told every business leader
Block cut 4,000+ people while posting record profit. The stock surged 25%. This isn't AI-washing — it's a new business model. What it means for every leader.
No. 100
TechnologyFebruary 26, 2026
How to make AI remember who you are: a practical guide to context engineering
Context engineering is the discipline replacing prompt engineering. Five practical files, ninety minutes, and your AI tools will never forget who you are again.
No. 101
BusinessFebruary 24, 2026
The acceleration trap: why AI makes you busier, not better
AI makes tasks faster, but 77% of workers say it's increased their workload. The acceleration trap is real — and it's a management problem to solve.
No. 102
BusinessFebruary 22, 2026
Your AI agent just went rogue: a practical guide to governance that works
Three real failures in one week made the case for AI agent governance. Here is a practical framework that keeps agents useful and controlled.
No. 103
BusinessFebruary 21, 2026
The collaboration paradox: AI makes teams more valuable, not less
The collaboration paradox: AI-augmented individuals match teams. But AI-augmented teams produce 3x more breakthroughs. Fewer people isn't the answer.
No. 104
BusinessFebruary 19, 2026
What “working on the business” means now
The E-Myth series finale. Gerber said build the system and step back. When the system thinks for itself, stepping back isn’t freedom — it’s neglect.
No. 105
BusinessFebruary 18, 2026
When everyone becomes full-stack
AI is raising the floor of competence across every discipline. The specialist era isn’t over — but who counts as one is changing fast.
No. 106
BusinessFebruary 17, 2026
The E-Myth operating system: what this actually looks like in practice
Capability maps, bounded intelligence, placement decisions — what building an AI-first business operating system looks like over twelve months.
No. 107
TechnologyFebruary 16, 2026
Personal AI agents just got validated — and the race to bring them to everyone is on
OpenAI just acqui-hired OpenClaw's creator. Every major lab wants the personal agent layer. The question is who gets there first.
No. 108
TechnologyFebruary 14, 2026
The UK doesn't have an AI problem — it has a growth problem
The UK's proposed AI bill adds friction to a stagnant economy. With 0.1% GDP growth, the last thing businesses need is more regulatory burden.
No. 109
BusinessFebruary 13, 2026
Governance, drift, and responsibility in AI-first firms
Systems don't fail dramatically in AI-first firms. They drift quietly until intent and reality diverge. The founder's irreducible role is stewardship.
No. 110
TechnologyFebruary 12, 2026
Something big has already happened
Shumer's viral essay sparked a fierce debate about AI's future. Both sides miss the real point — what AI can do right now is already enough to matter.
No. 111
TechnologyFebruary 12, 2026
The creative dividend: why AI's real gift is giving us back our imagination
AI's biggest gift isn't efficiency — it's freeing us to think creatively again. Here's why imagination is your real competitive edge.
No. 112
BusinessFebruary 6, 2026
When the application layer is eaten from below
AI agents aren't replacing software. They're bypassing it entirely — and most organisations won't notice until the damage is done.
No. 113
BusinessFebruary 5, 2026
Scaling without hiring: leverage density and the new economics of growth
AI lets small firms scale output without adding headcount. But scaling decisions without scaling governance creates drift. Here is the design problem.
No. 114
BusinessJanuary 28, 2026
Deciding where judgement belongs
Takeaways from The E-Myth: how to decide where judgement belongs in your business, clarify roles, and build systems that actually work.
No. 115
TechnologyJanuary 26, 2026
Just build it
Building was expensive; thinking was cheap. AI has flipped it. Why prototyping beats endless planning, and how working code becomes the best argument.
No. 116
BusinessJanuary 24, 2026
How to design a role as bounded intelligence
Job descriptions assume humans fill gaps. Bounded intelligence specifications don't. Here's the mechanics of delegation that works.
No. 117
BusinessJanuary 22, 2026
Goodhart's law for AI agents: when your AI finds the loophole before you do
Your AI agent will ruthlessly optimise any metric you set — including the loopholes you didn't see. Goodhart's law and the AI governance trap most teams miss.
No. 118
BusinessJanuary 19, 2026
Why franchising is now the wrong metaphor
Procedures scale humans. Policies scale AI systems. The franchise model breaks when consistency comes from intent, not scripts.
No. 119
BusinessJanuary 15, 2026
AI won't fix bad management — it will expose it
Task-masking isn't laziness. It's rational behaviour in systems that reward activity over outcomes. AI removes the last places it hides.
No. 120
TechnologyJanuary 9, 2026
AI is killing businesses whose products have never been more popular
Tailwind CSS is more popular than ever—revenue down 80%. Stack Overflow, Chegg, bootcamps: same pattern. AI disintermediation spares no one.
No. 121
BusinessDecember 31, 2025
The E-Myth, revisited again: why Michael Gerber was right — and why that's no longer enough
Gerber taught founders to replace themselves with systems and people. AI changes what that means. Here's where the original insight breaks.
No. 122
TechnologyDecember 24, 2025
Most AI capability doesn't live in the model
Where AI capability really lives — and why arguing about models misses the point entirely. A framework for what matters.
No. 123
TechnologyDecember 22, 2025
The elitism problem in the creative backlash against AI
Some creative objections to AI are legitimate. Others are elitism dressed up as principle. Lumping them together weakens the real arguments.
No. 124
TechnologyDecember 18, 2025
I predicted the conversational UI/AI revolution in 2016. Here's what I got right — and wrong
In 2016 I gave talks saying chatbots would change everything. Eight years later, they have — just not how I expected.
No. 125
TechnologyDecember 17, 2025
Everyone is a product manager now
AI coding tools haven't turned everyone into engineers. They've turned everyone into product managers. Here's why direction beats execution now.
No. 126
BusinessDecember 2, 2025
AI doesn't replace thinking — it replaces knowing
Knowledge used to be scarce and valuable. Now it's instant and free. The real question: how well can you think when knowing is cheap?
No. 127
OtherNovember 23, 2025
The AI-Shaped Organisation
Companies adding AI to old structures fail. Learn why organisations must be redesigned around AI—not just enabled by it—to gain exponential advantage.
No. 128
BusinessNovember 17, 2025
Beyond the prompt: why asking AI is already obsolete
Companies think they're using AI by prompting ChatGPT. They're wrong. The real transformation happens when AI stops waiting to be asked.
No. 129
BusinessNovember 14, 2025
Leadership is the new management: how AI is unbundling middle management and what to do about it
AI is absorbing the coordination half of management and leaving the leadership half. How companies are implementing that shift with today's tools.
No. 130
BusinessOctober 21, 2025
AI literacy for managers: why it matters and how to build it
Learn to distinguish AI capability from expensive theatre. Six practical skills every manager needs to make better AI decisions and avoid costly mistakes.
No. 131
BusinessOctober 7, 2025
The Dashboard That Tells You What to Do Next
Dashboards that guide, not just inform — how Intelligent Choice Architectures evolve prescriptive analytics into real-time, LLM-powered decision tools.
No. 132
TechnologySeptember 15, 2025
The 75/25 split: why coding with AI is brilliant… until it isn't
AI coding assistants deliver 75% productivity gains but require constant vigilance. A senior developer's practical guide to what works and what doesn't.
No. 133
BusinessAugust 17, 2025
AI-first or left behind: Why business leaders must act now
Why an AI-first strategy is essential for business leaders to boost productivity, competitiveness, and future-proof growth
No. 134
TechnologyAugust 1, 2025
What is AGI really? And how close are we now?
AGI gets promised constantly and defined rarely. What it actually means, why the timelines slip, and a realistic read on how close we really are, now.
No. 135
BusinessJuly 29, 2025
Helping everyone on the AI journey: a practical guide for organisations
AI adoption isn't just technical—it's human. Learn how to support five distinct groups in your organisation's AI journey with practical, empathetic strategies.
No. 136
BusinessJuly 2, 2025
The £2 trillion question: What if your next hire came with their own AI partner?
Discover how hiring human-AI partnerships could transform productivity. Employees bring trained AI companions that adapt instantly to new roles.
No. 137
BusinessJune 17, 2025
Invest 2035: Why Britain's safety-first approach to automation could leave us behind
Britain's union-influenced approach to AI and automation prioritises consensus over speed, risking competitiveness as rivals like Germany surge ahead.
No. 138
OtherFebruary 26, 2025
The economic role of cheap labour in American growth: from slavery to AI
Every era of American growth has been powered by a new source of cheap labour. Slavery, immigration, gig workers, now AI. The pattern is older than you think.
No. 139
BusinessFebruary 16, 2025
AI is already replacing jobs—software development is just the beginning
IT unemployment jumped from 3.9% to 5.7% in a single month. Software development is the canary in the coal mine — here's which industries AI disrupts next.
No. 140
MarketingDecember 18, 2024
The future of search: how conversational AI and audience-building will redefine information retrieval in 2025
How conversational AI and audience building are reshaping search by 2025 — from natural-language results to why direct audience connections matter more.
No. 141
BusinessSeptember 11, 2024
A tale of two AI's
Explore the key differences between AI and algorithmic intelligence, and their impact on business today and tomorrow
No. 142
OtherMay 24, 2023
Friends, Friendship, and the Future
Exploring how social media and AI are reshaping our understanding of friends and friendship, emphasizing the value of genuine, deep connections
No. 143
TechnologyApril 12, 2023
Craft wildly unique music playlists with ChatGPT and Apple Music
Explore unique playlists with ChatGPT! Generate themed lists, import them into Apple Music using my Shortcut & enjoy personalized tunes.?
No. 144
TechnologyJanuary 5, 2023
chatGPT as tutor and Google-killer
Beyond writing blogs, letters, code and poetry - chatGPT has the power to be a private tutor and Google killer.