The Class of 2030 Hasn’t Started
Australian trade apprenticeship commencements fell for a third year while completions hit records. Only one of those numbers tells you anything about 2030.
Same Data, Three Directions
The Reserve Bank held. CBA and ANZ read the same data toward different conclusions, and so did the Fed, the ECB, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England. Morris Misel on what happens to a decision when the institutions you’ve delegated judgement to stop agreeing.
Robots Are Already Working in Australian Aged Care. The Argument We Skipped Is the One That Matters.
Companion robots are already in Australian aged care and the national AI plan names them. Monitoring supports care. Companionship substitutes for 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.
Outputs, Not Inputs: What I Said in 2016, and What 1,178 AI Researchers Just Confirmed
In 2016, at a keynote in Perth, I said the real question was never the technology. It was outputs, not inputs. Ten years later, the researchers building the world’s most powerful AI just confirmed it, in a letter to their own governments.
PTFA: Past Trauma, Future Anxiety. Why Organisations Get Stuck
When the past runs the room and the future feels threatening, organisations cannot learn or prepare. PTFA names the pattern, and that is how you begin to move through it.
