Month: January 2025
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On the Agentic Organisation
The next wave of AI innovation is already upon us, and it’s the era of agentic AI. In fact, OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar has already said that ‘agentic’ will be the word of 2025. The pace of progression has been remarkably fast from simple chatbots that were primarily designed to engage in conversation, answer questions,…
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Breaking out of paradigms
‘What happens with a lot of creative works is that people exist within a paradigm and they don’t realise that they’re constrained by their paradigm. So they’re a little bit like a goldfish swimming around in a bowl, and they say ‘we could travel the world!’ and you say to them ‘what about the bowl?’…
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On career and life plateaus
I really like this George Leonard quote (via Shane Parrish) from a 1987 Esquire Magazine piece, talking about how mastery is a series of plateaus interspersed by brief spurts of progress: “The most important lessons here — especially for young people — is that even if you’re shooting for the stars, you’re going to spend…
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On misinterpreting the diffusion of innovations curve
The diffusion of innovations curve, developed by Everett Rogers, has become a pretty iconic tool in understanding how new ideas, products, or technologies gain traction within a market. Its simplicity is compelling: a bell curve that categorises adopters (or a population) into five groups — innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Yet,…