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 …
Agentic AI for Product Leaders: What You Actually Need to Know
After 25 years leading product and technology teams, I thought I understood technology cycles. The hype, the overpromise, the disappointment, the slow maturation into something genuinely useful. I …
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The Wrong Bottleneck
The AI industry is obsessed with throughput. How fast can a model generate tokens? How cheaply? How many can fit in a context window? These are the questions animating billions in investment and …
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 …
We’ve Always Been Building Paperclip Machines
My former colleague Mark House wrote something this week that's been rattling around in my head. He references the Universal Paperclips game — a browser game where an AI tasked with making paperclips …
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AI in Education: What’s Actually Changing (And What Isn’t)
# AI in Education: What's Actually Changing (And What Isn't) The industrial model of education was never designed to work. It was designed to scale. Thirty children, one teacher, one curriculum, the …
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