Why LLMs are like a pub
Stop treating Generative AI like a divine Oracle. It isn’t. It’s a pub. A massive, deafeningly loud, almost infinite pub. If you walk into a pub...
Writing
Thoughts on AI, transformation, leadership, and the craft of getting things done.
Why Your AI Policy Needs Examples (Not Just Principles)
Principle-based AI policies fail because interpretation is inevitable. Concrete examples create shared understanding, expose edge cases, and enable enforcement.
Why Your Board Shouldn't Rush to Cement an AI Strategy (And What to Do Instead)
With 79% of board directors lacking AI knowledge and most pilots failing, boards should build foundational literacy before committing to formal strategies.
The AI Consolidation Nobody's Talking About: What October's Data Tells Publishing and EdTech
Standalone AI tools are declining, but general platforms are surging. This is market professionalisation, not retreat - and publishing needs to prepare now.
The AI Strategy Paradox
For any leader in a sector like publishing, the discourse around Artificial Intelligence presents a frustrating paradox. On one hand, major...
The New Enclosure: How AI is Privatising Our Cognitive Commons
The rolling green fields of the British countryside, crisscrossed by ancient hedgerows, evoke an image of timeless tradition. Yet, this landscape...
The AI Content Factory and the Artisanal Press
The questions echo through all levels of publishing corridors: will generative AI replace our jobs? Will editors, authors, and designers be made...
An Elegy for the Em Dash—and the Human Writer
There is a piece of punctuation that breathes. It is not a full stop, which ends a thought, nor a comma, which suggests a gentle pause. It is the...
Swap the Infinite Scroll for the Infinite Prompt
Have you ever looked up from your phone to find your child staring at you, waiting for an answer to a question you do not remember hearing? It is...
Give employees time and space to become AI fluent, or be left behind
There is a growing, and possibly concerning, trend emerging in the workplace: Reports and surveys consistently show that recent graduates are...