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Everything, in one place.
Writing on AI, people, and the gap between the two. Short reads, essays, and whitepapers.
The whitepapers and short articles below form two series — The AI Capability Series and The Professional Practice Series — both easier to navigate in order.
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Long August 2026
Owning the Work: Professional Practice with AI
Most AI-assisted professional work should remain professional work. The failures worth worrying about are absences rather than errors on the page; professional work divides into procedure and craft, and the expensive mistakes come from treating one as the other.
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The Hardest Thing to Find Is the Thing That Is Not There
At a conference in Barcelona in 2025 I watched a doctor present their use of AI to review scans. The case on the screen was a skilled radiologist find…
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Craft Wearing Procedure's Clothes
Someone asks for the top five risks in the supplier agreement. They get five. All five are real, well described, correctly drawn from the document. Wh…
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Test the Object. Name the Maker.
You send the summary. The person who signs it reads your two pages, and then opens the contract anyway. They will not tell you they did that, because…
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The Workflow Never Crashed Once
Someone in procurement builds a useful thing in an afternoon. It watches the contracts folder for renewal dates inside ninety days, pulls the agreemen…
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Malice Is Not Required
A procurement team puts a workflow on its tender inbox. It reads each response as it arrives, checks it against the submission requirements, pulls out…
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Long January 2026
The Flywheel and the Frenzy: Navigating the AI Turning Point
AI amplifies what an organisation already has. It does not manufacture what it lacks. Reading the current cycle through Carlota Perez, and why the question that decides outcomes is not how to implement AI, but what you already have that is worth amplifying.
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Long April 2026
Cognitive Rusting: What Organisations Lose When They Automate Their People
Why the standard human-in-the-loop workflow quietly deskills a firm, what automating entry-level work does to the talent pipeline, and why middle management matters more in an AI-enabled organisation, not less.
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Long July 2026
The Scaffolding of Intellect: How Organisations Tame a Non-Robust Technology
The models will commoditise, and method becomes the last available differentiator. Why verification rather than generation is now the binding constraint on AI-assisted work, and how the disciplines that already solved this problem designed their gates.
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The Tool Never Tells You No
Three years ago I would not have believed how much these tools would extend my own work. I read organisations for a living: structuring problems, building arguments, finding the load-be…
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Quite Confident
Tell a British colleague their plan is quite good and you have told them it is adequate and you have reservations. Tell an American the same thing and you have told them it is very good…
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Someone Else Is Paying for Your Learning
The prediction first, with the confidence attached, so it can be held against me later. A correction is coming. High confidence, because the pattern has run five times in two centuries …
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The Flywheel Does Not Turn at One Desk
A document arrives from a colleague. It is well structured, the prose is clean, the argument moves. Somewhere inside it is a claim you would be embarrassed to repeat in front of a clien…
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The Reviewer Trap
The machine generates the draft. The human reviews it. The output goes forward.
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Your Graduate Programme Is a Client-Development Pipeline
Take a graduate intake from ten years ago and follow it forward. A couple are still with the firm, one on partner track. Most left inside four years, which everybody treats as leakage. …
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The Dependency Nobody Has Priced
Two risks are sitting in most organisations right now, and they are owned by different people.
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What Clients Are Actually Buying
Your client can now produce a decent version of your deliverable without you. Not as good, probably, but competent, structured and available on a Tuesday evening for the price of a subs…
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Workslop Does Not Look Like Slop
Three findings from the past eighteen months, all measured rather than asserted.
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Checking Is Now More Expensive Than Doing
I have been saying something for about two years that is not quite right, and since this series is partly about verification, I should correct it in public.
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Ten Steps at Ninety Percent
Take a piece of knowledge work with ten steps in it and suppose each step is carried out correctly ninety percent of the time. Run it unchecked, one step feeding the next, and the relia…
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The Professions That Never Had to Build an Immune System
A litigator, a radiologist, an auditor and a historian have something important in common. It is not a technical education, and it is not intelligence.
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Medium July 2026
Your AI Is Doing the Work. Your People Aren't Learning.
The entry-level work we are handing to AI was never just cheap labour. It is the apprenticeship through which professional judgment gets built, and most firms are dismantling it without noticing.
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Short July 2026
The Hidden Cost of Letting AI Write the First Draft
Output is up and turnaround is down, and something underneath is quietly going wrong. The machine drafts, the human reviews, and no one in the chain is quite doing the thinking.
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Medium June 2026
The Flywheel and the Frenzy: A Practitioner's Map of Where AI Actually Is
Fifteen years in machine learning before anyone called it AI. What I have seen working, what I have seen failing, and why the gap between the two matters more than almost anyone is currently willing to admit.
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Short June 2026
Is AI Electricity or Cryptocurrency? Honestly, I'm Not Sure Yet.
We are at the beginning of the end of the first cycle. The correction is not the end of the story. It is the part that comes before the real work begins.
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