My AI Predictions Expired Before the Ink Dried: Why Even Exponential Thinking Isn't Fast Enough
It’s Saturday before I fly to India on a work trip and I'm reviewing a predictions piece I published on LinkedIn just over four weeks ago. Ten bold forecasts for AI in 2026, written in the spirit of Ray Kurzweil's exponential optimism. I'd even felt a little bit pleased with myself writing them as they were a bit… aggressive, even. The kind of piece that makes people say 'that's a stretch.' And as I sit here getting ready to pack my suitcase, I am reflecting on the fact that
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The Tax on Intelligence: Why the UK Is Paying Four Times More to Think
Last week I sat on a panel on AI for a private equity firm. There were some great insights around the state of AI in the wild from the CEOs, founders and other panellists in the sessions I managed to see and in the conversations over drinks afterwards. One of the topics that discussions increasingly turned to is the energy premium we are paying in the UK and what that means about the cost of keeping our data centre lights on. The Stakes Most People Miss This blog is about why
Jan 268 min read
The Infrastructure of Belonging: Which Teams Will Survive AI?
During COVID we proved a strange thing: you can keep a company running through a grid of faces - and still watch the human glue quietly dissolve. Hour after hour of 'being on' in front of a camera didn't just tire us out; it thinned us out. Psychologists even gave it a name. 'Zoom fatigue' - arguing that video calls overload us with sustained eye contact, self-monitoring, and missing body-language cues. Stanford's Jeremy Bailenson has written extensively about this. And large
Jan 136 min read
The Identity Crisis of the 60-Year-Old Intern: Why Your Career Stage Model Just Became Obsolete
It's a lazy Sunday afternoon and I've just watched Robert de Niro in The Intern. De Niro plays a 70 year old widower who joins a senior intern program at a fast growing online fashion start up. So far, so Hollywood. Except the premise of the movie is that de Niro's character is a true anomaly - fitting in pretty seamlessly into a tech-oriented startup; he's mobile, sharp and socially fluent. These are the attributes people assume of a fit 40 or 50 something year old. AI-dri
Dec 21, 20256 min read
