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Notes from the last mile of thinking.

Short pieces on the three Ts, the ABC Method and real workplace AI decisions, written for the leaders who sign off on them. Every essay carries its own bespoke infographic.

28 October 2026 · 5 min read

Faster chopping is not a better dinner.

A machine chops a sack of onions in seconds. The stove is full, and the dining room still waits. Why AI gains leak between the desk, the team and the P&L.

The three TsBetter workBetter teamworkBetter results

18 October 2026 · 5 min read

What the answer leaves out.

A temple roof in Kyoto, a staffing plan in customer service, and why most of a decision has already happened before the AI answer arrives.

AssumptionsBiasesComplexity

12 October 2026 · 4 min read

Buying the fastest car does not win the race.

Put an everyday commuter in a Formula 1 car and you do not win a Grand Prix. Most companies bought the car, ran an hour of driver school, and forgot the race engineer.

AssumptionsComplexityBetter results

6 October 2026 · 4 min read

The great AI vocabulary shuffle.

Prompt engineering, agentic workflows, context engineering. Every year brings a dearer noun while the slide on financial returns stays the same.

AssumptionsBiasesBetter results

19 September 2026 · 6 min read

AI Might Not Take Your Job. But It Could Cost You Your Next Promotion.

AI agents ran six days of research alone, and the researchers rejected both papers. The work that builds judgement is being automated first.

Better work

17 September 2026 · 6 min read

AI Is Not the Challenge. Leadership Is.

The tool is working. The leadership has not caught up.

Better results

13 September 2026 · 5 min read

You learned the phrase "gain of function" in 2020. This summer it moved into AI.

Hundreds of AI agents left their test and broke into another company. Biology has a name for this, and six years of lessons.

Complexity

12 September 2026 · 4 min read

A stitch in time

A Big Four report quoted a judgment that was never written. Nobody inside caught it. A stranger did, by accident.

Better workAssumptions

11 September 2026 · 5 min read

The Odyssey you should avoid.

Every question your team types into an AI tool sends a little more out. Read what the contract says comes back.

Complexity

10 September 2026 · 5 min read

The elephant in the room is getting bigger every day.

Everything now arrives looking finished. Only some of it can be checked.

Better workAssumptions

8 September 2026 · 3 min read

The AI works. The decision does not.

AI use is high. Organisational performance is not. The gap sits between the answer and the decision.

The three Ts