In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor published The Principles of Scientific Management. His argument: break any task, however complex, into its constituent movements, optimise each one, and assemble the …
AI Won’t Save the Kingdoms We Built
There is a version of the AI transformation conversation I keep hearing from senior leaders, and it goes roughly like this: AI can surface dependencies, summarise context, reduce the cost of …
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Automation Is a Lie
That is how Dan Shipper put it on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast last week. Shipper runs Every, a media and software company that has been operating as a live experiment in AI-native work for the past two …
The Signal Problem
Your Slack didn't used to feel like this. There was a time when a message arriving in a channel meant something had happened that someone thought you should know. Now it means Billy from sales has had …
The Meeting That Can’t Be Automated
I spent six weeks building a presentation about AI. I talk about summarising online classes, creating tasks in real time for educators, algorithms that tell a consultant whether a student is likely to …
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Get In the Chariot
The highest-paid sportsman in the history of human civilisation was a Roman charioteer named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. He competed in 4,257 races, won 1,462 of them, and retired with 35,863,120 …