Month: January 2026
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Business Critical Thinking
On the risks of blindly following technology in the age of AI In the summer of 2009, 28 year old nurse Alicia Sanchez was driving through Death Valley National Park with her six-year-old son Carlos when her GPS directed her onto an unmarked road. She followed it for 20 miles, continuing even when the road…
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Re-imagining the corporation in the age of AI
Alex McCann has been doing some interesting writing around the current and future state of corporate work over the past year. He wrote that well-shared (I refuse to say ‘viral’) post on the death of the corporate job which seemed to resonate with a huge number of people. It added in a small way to the growing momentum around…
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Using AI to Ask Better Questions
I wanted to go deeper on a theme that has come up repeatedly in my work – how do we genuinely break out of assumptions that can hold us back (including those we don’t even know we have). And ultimately, how can we ask better questions? I’m increasingly minded to believe that, with AI capability…
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The Clown and the Editor in Creative and Strategy Workflows
It being the end of one year and the start of another I wanted to use this as an opportunity to pull together several strands that have dominated my thinking over the last 12 months notably the heightened value of critical thinking and intellectual curiosity, and how AI can be a true thought partner and…
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Shipped in 2025
For the last 12 years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) I’ve written an end of year retrospective. This is, as I say every year, less about pushing my achievements and more about taking a step back to look at the shape of what I’ve done over the past year. I get the sense that many of my peers…