The Agent That Asks Before It Answers
Agents now act for us and clones can sound like anyone. The most useful agent may be the one that slows you down. From my RTHK Radio 3 segment.
Where Does a Business Learn Now?
AI is thinning the junior rung and the middle-manager rung at the same time. So where does a business learn its judgement now, and who’s going to pay for it?
Funeral Homes, Shrimp Farms and Unpaid Invoices: Where AI Agents Are Really Working
Forbes has listed twenty AI agents doing real work: a funeral home’s after-hours calls, shrimp farms, unpaid invoices. What they tell us, and what to do this week.
We Talk Like Whoever We Spend Time With. Now That Includes Chatbots.
People are picking up chatbot phrases at work and at home. We’ve always borrowed words from whatever surrounds us, and those words shape how we think.
A Question About Pond Algae Just Won a Nobel Prize
A small question about pond algae became the 2026 Nobel Prize for optogenetics. Thirty years from pond to patient, and what it says about foresight.
Some of 2027 Is Already Sitting in Your Diary
Some of next year is already here: in the diary, in another industry, or inside your own business. Where to look, and a 20-minute exercise from Before the Year Turns.
