Month: October 2026
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Technical and Adaptive AI Transformation
In 2013 the American surgeon and writer Atul Gawande wrote a New Yorker piece in which he looked at the reasons why some innovations spread almost instantly whilst others can take decades to be adopted. He used a fascinating medical example, telling the story of how the use of anaesthesia (introduced in 1846) had spread…
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The Erosion of Judgement
Regular readers will know how passionate I am about protecting critical thinking in the age of AI, and avoiding cognitive surrender to the machine. The lens through which I look at this subject is typically strategy and leadership, and I thought it would be super-interesting to get another, different perspective on it from a real…
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Our Shrinking Sense of Agency
Two months ago Johnnie Moore wrote an unusually thought-provoking post over on LinkedIn referencing Stephen Covey’s circles of control, influence and concern: ‘More and more, I think our culture and technology is dragging our fragmented attention further and further away from what we can influence. I know I can easily be lured into excitable content…