The Room Already Knew
Three tasks, four options, four minutes. A room of mortgage brokers sorted their own work into human, machine, AI and combination and got all three right. The question almost nobody is asking, and the free tool that answers it.
The Leadership Pipeline Isn’t Broken. We Deleted It.
We automated entry-level work and eliminated middle management in the same window. In doing so, we deleted the corporate classroom and the teacher. Here’s what arrives next, and why the organisations that feel most efficient right now may be the least prepared for 2029.
We’ve Been Looking in the Wrong Place for a Very Long Time
A pigeon navigates with its liver. Parrots call you by name when you’re not in the room. And mammals didn’t lose the ability to regenerate — the switch was turned off. What three science stories quietly rewrite about what we are.
We Didn’t Just Automate the Jobs. We Removed the Years.
AI isn’t just automating entry-level tasks. It’s removing the developmental years that built professional judgment. The pipeline doesn’t just thin at entry — it thins at every point downstream. Here’s what’s actually at stake and what organisations can do about it.
The Productive Mask: What Quiet Burnout Is Doing to Your Organisation’s Decision Quality
Your measurement systems are telling you your best people are fine. They’re not. Quiet burnout in 2026 doesn’t look like distress. It looks like reliability. And that’s exactly the problem.
The Degree Question: Why the Path Into Work Is Being Redrawn
The question of whether university is still worth it used to be a conversation for dinner tables and opinion columns. Now it is a strategic decision that employers, institutions, and families are facing simultaneously — and the ground is shifting faster than most people realise. As AI absorbs the entry-level work that graduates once relied on, and as employers quietly drop the degree requirement for the first time in generations, something structural is changing about the path into work. Here is what I think it means.
