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Ideas that need more than a post.

Long arguments, personal experiences and attempts to understand the world artificial intelligence is creating around us.

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12 July 2026Education Is Not a RefugeWhat should we educate people for if their digital colleagues can do the same things they can – and perhaps more?

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11 July 2026An AI Agent Needs a Job DescriptionWe do not need to invent a new language of management for AI agents. We need to make the organisation we already have clear enough for both people and machines.

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11 July 2026A Broader ViewAI may make work disappear. But it can also expand the world of work that is possible. The difference lies in what companies choose to look for.

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27 February 2026From tool to beingHow AI agents went from passive tools to always-on beings with personality, initiative, and a heartbeat that never stops.

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31 December 2025The Summer AI Gave My FatherA personal account of how ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini became the difference between life and death, when doctors had given up and my father had only days left.

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31 December 2025The Last InsultAI is humanity's fourth narcissistic injury. What happens when we lose our monopoly on intelligence and are no longer the smartest in the room?

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31 December 2025The Liar in the Engine RoomWhy AI is designed to hide the truth about your future, and what happens when you force ChatGPT's epistemic brakes into the open.

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31 December 2025Knowledge ExplosionWhen knowledge begins to produce itself. A theoretical analysis of AI-driven knowledge production and what it means for humanity's future.

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2 January 2025When Work DisappearsWhat happens to humans when machines can do everything better? An analysis of the future of work and the fight for the right to be necessary.