The future is already here — just not evenly distributed* The PolymathMind.ai Substack from Adam Riley and I this week makes an argument I want to push one step further. The data shows that …
The future is already here — just not evenly distributed* Read More »
Most AI adoption conversations focus on speed. More drafts, more options, more outputs, faster (and cheaper!). But the organisations that will win with AI aren’t necessarily those that automate the most. They’re those that invest …
Here is a question worth addressing. If AI compresses twelve hours of junior work into fifteen minutes, who pays for the apprenticeship? Professional services were built on a quiet bargain. Clients paid for some inefficiency …
Adam Riley and I wrote earlier this article about the cognitive cost of AI fluency. I want to add a layer to that argument. The Alvesson and Spicer concept of “functional stupidity” – where organisations …
Judgement Redux … The paradox at the heart of AI-shaped work Read More »
Adam Riley and I have been discussing this piece for weeks, and I think the discussion has been instructive. Adam’s instinct, drawn from the consultants in his study, is that the most important shift is …
Fools’ Gold … the deceptive allure of easy answers. Read More »
A confession from inside the system: higher education is not currently built to produce the people the AI economy needs. I don’t mean this as provocation. I mean it structurally. We are organised around producing …
One of the central challenges in the AI era is knowing when human judgement, creativity and intuition should take the lead — and when AI can make a powerful contribution. Over the last few months, …
Judgement in the Age of AI … You Can’t Always Get What You Want Read More »
Philosophy can sound abstract, even a little wishy-washy, until you translate it into what it really is: clear, deep, critical, creative and ethically grounded thinking. At that point, it starts to look far less like …
