Month: February 2025
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The progression of AI agents
I truly believe that with AI agents we are on the cusp of huge change – in organisation design, strategy, operations, staffing, customer experience – just about any and every area of the organisation will be impacted. And as I wrote a
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Productive and Generative learning
I came across Tony O’Driscoll’s ideas around productive and generative learning via Robert Guidi’s LinkedIn post which seems to have stirred up quite a bit of debate in the comments about the future of AI learning & development. Anyhow, I was interested
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Why critical thinking is even more important in the age of AI
I was really struck by this post from Dr Philippa Hardman who has done a fantastic job of reviewing five recent studies on the impact of Gen AI on learning. Many have hailed the potential of generic LLM tools in supporting learning but as
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Bimodal working, and why we’re having the wrong debate about WFH
Margaret Heffernan makes a great point in her post about WFH and why focusing on arguments about the number of work days that should be based in the office or at home is really the wrong debate to have. The issue, says
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Brands, and Latent Space
Reading Jack Smyth’s reflections on the recent BRXND Marketing x AI conference in LA I came across the idea of ‘latent space’ as it relates to brands and LLMs. I confess I’d not heard the term before so I did some digging
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On DeepSeek and hiring experience
There was an interesting detail in Ian Leslie’s latest newsletter about DeepSeek: ‘DeepSeek explicitly hires inexperienced programmers. They’ve said their ideal employee has 3-5 years of experience and that if you have 8 or more they won’t even consider you. In industries
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What Darwin, Faraday and Wollstonecraft teach us about navigating an overwhelming world
I’ve been listening to Human Intelligence, a wonderful podcast from the BBC which features short (15 minute) episodes focusing on ‘brilliant thinkers with 50 stories that celebrate the human mind’. Like one of it’s subject thinkers Socrates, Human Intelligence is concerned with how people think