Getting Better in the Same Direction
When every organisation improves in the same direction, the second and third order consequences aren’t growth. They’re narrowing.
Ripple Effects: The Framework for Tracing What Comes After the Obvious
Most organisations respond well to the first wave of any change. It is the third wave, the one they did not see coming, that reshapes everything.
I Said It Was Never Humans vs. Machines. Ten Years Later, Nobody Built the Human Half.
In 2016 in Perth I said it was never humans versus machines. Ten years later, the machines arrived on schedule. The human wisdom layer did not. This is what I heard in a Brisbane boardroom last week, and why the gap between the machine curve and the wisdom curve is where AI ROI goes to die.
What the Naked Mole Rat Knows (And Why the Medicine Is Already Moving)
Two signals from this week’s science — Neanderthal language DNA and a longevity gene transferred from naked mole rats to mice — point toward something larger: the medicine is moving, and we are barely noticing.
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 Quiet Retreat: Why People Are Stepping Back from Social Media
The data says people aren’t leaving social media because they’re damaged. They’re leaving because the substitutes reached a point of sufficiency. That’s a different problem, requiring a different response.
