You need your sound on for this post. That was me last week. suffering with a basic cold. I had narration to record and online sessions to run. I know I could have used an AI tool to clone my voice and generate the narration for me, but it would not have sounded as good.… Read More Sound on
AI is becoming the production layer. and human judgement becomes the control layer. That is the structural shift underneath the Coursera 2026 Job Skills Report, which analyses learning behaviours across roughly six million enterprise learners. The surface finding is familiar; AI skills are rising sharply as prompt engineering, multimodal prompts, and generative model architectures become… Read More Beyond Skills
I’m really pleased to be joining the judging panel for the CIPD People Management Awards 2026. One of the genuine benefits of a role like this is seeing work that rarely gets visibility. Organisations doing rigorous, grounded people practice tend not to shout about it. Awards panels are one of the few places where that… Read More Seeing Real Work
LinkedIn keeps changing how posts travel. Every few months I think we have a rough sense of the system, and then something shifts. Posts that should reach people stall, and the posts I almost didn’t publish travel much further. The latest theory doing the rounds is about timing. The old Monday, Wednesday, Friday rhythm may… Read More An experiment
Showing up day after day is tough. The demand is familiar: more, faster, better. AI makes it feel achievable but it probably isn’t, at least not in the way people expect. Speed without diagnosis produces more of the wrong thing, faster. AI amplifies that problem before you notice it. The professionals holding their ground right… Read More Showing up
Lost and Desperate 