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The AI Creative Process: Why AI Should Enter Twice
The best AI Creative Process partnership with AI is not constant collaboration: use it to widen the field, protect the human middle, then bring it back to strengthen what you have made. Most people use AI as if it should remain beside them throughout the whole creative process. They open a chatbot when the task…
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Human Magic: Leading with Wisdom in an Age of Algorithms
The 1% Book Shelf — Human Magic by Johan Roos (Routledge, 2026). Most technology shifts changed how we work. This one changes who decides. For decades the deal was simple: the tool helped, you chose. AI quietly rewrites that contract. Instead of using a system to inform a decision, we increasingly invite a system to…
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Physical AI Isn’t a Shortlist. It’s a Sequence.
Read or skip? For enterprise architects and delivery leads deciding where physical AI lands first. If you’re tempted to pilot whatever sits at the top of Deloitte’s chart, read on — the ranking and the deployment order are not the same list. If you’ve already mapped your physical-AI work as a dependency graph, you can…
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AI Coding Assistants May Be Creating the Next Technical Debt Crisis
AI-generated code may improve short-term velocity while quietly increasing long-term maintenance complexity, readability problems, and hidden operational fragility.
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AI May Make Work Feel Faster Without Making It Faster
AI can cut the effort a task takes without cutting the time it takes — and that gap quietly distorts how we judge productivity.
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The Next Workplace Conflict Is Not Human vs AI
The real workplace divide forming under AI is not between people and machines. It is between the people who are managed by algorithms and the people who manage them.
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Supercommunicators Is A Leadership Book About Alignment, Not Charisma
A Beta Tester Life review of Charles Duhigg’s Supercommunicators, exploring leadership, AI adoption, trust, and conversation alignment.
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Constraints make us better
On David Epstein’s Inside the Box, and why the most useful AI, delivery and governance work of the next two years will be done inside deliberate, well-shaped boxes. Constraints make us better. Read or skip? Read. If you’re running anything to do with AI adoption, platform engineering, governance or enterprise delivery, Epstein’s book gives you…
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Worker-Positive AI: Why Skills, Not Job Titles, Decide Who Wins the Next Five Years
AI is not erasing UK jobs — it is reorganising them, worker-positive AI. Here is the evidence-led case for skills-based work, with named studies and a practical playbook. The doomsday story about AI and jobs keeps missing the point. Work is not disappearing. It is being reorganised. And the organisations that win the next five…
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The Entry-Level Collapse: What Happens When AI Eats Year One
AI is not just cutting entry-level roles. It is cutting the apprenticeship system that produces the seniors you will need in 2030. Four practical moves to protect the pipeline before the gap shows up in delivery.
