I am a big 70% planning, 30% implementation individual. Always getting things in order and feeling really organised before something goes ahead. It feels built into my DNA, or just a core part of who I am. On Sundays I have a cook-up to help the week feel prepared and smooth. Before the baking begins… Read More I built my own bench: My AI Change & Learning Skillset
How it started… and how it’s going now Lately I’ve been writing a lot about AI from the outside in. Why rolling out AI isn’t like rolling out software. Whether organisations are ready for AI that does things. What we might be giving away when we hand over the hard thinking. And why nobody wants… Read More My AI Toolkit in 2026
Our 4WD barely gets driven anymore. It sits in the driveway, and most of the time that’s exactly where it stays.But every so often I need it. And every so often that means edging the big white beast into a tight space in a busy carpark, on a busy day, often with someone waiting behind… Read More Nobody Wants To Be Bad At Something In Front Of Other People
Fourth in a series on AI at work. This one’s less about the workplace and more about us. I listened to a podcast interview with Dr Norman Swan recently and ordered his new book, The Brain Cliff, before it had finished. It’s currently on the bedside table in the queue of books waiting for me… Read More The Cost of Hard Thinking We’re Giving Away
Following on from last week’s post about why AI rollouts don’t behave like software rollouts. Every time we’ve moved house, I’ve looked at the packing companies. The main reason we’ve never used one isn’t just that they’re not cheap, but that is part of it. Generally I’ve also always talked myself out of it for… Read More Is Your Organisation Ready for AI That Does Things?
We had to replace our oven a few months ago. Not a choice, really, the old one gave up, and I am a mad baker so cannot live without an oven. The new oven is a marvel. We didn’t spend top dollar, but just being modern it has touchscreen and some cool features. An air… Read More Bake, 180, Done: Why Rolling Out AI Isn’t Rolling Out Software
I’m trying to walk more at the moment, and walking means alone time, pondering, and ideas… and more writing. The concept of cognitive load has been on my mind, which I think was triggered by a small, unremarkable moment. I was trying to find a file. I couldn’t remember if it was in Teams, SharePoint,… Read More The Hidden Cost of Tool Sprawl: What It’s Actually Doing to Your Brain
There’s a conversation happening in many AI training sessions that I think is missing something important. It usually goes like this: here’s a framework, here are the parts, here’s an example, now you try. And the framework is genuinely useful. I wrote about why I use two of them and when to switch between them. Structures like… Read More Prompting as a cognitive skill, not a technical one
I’ve been thinking about this for a while. I use AI regularly and benefit from doing faster work, help thinking more clearly on hard days, and getting through content I’d otherwise struggle to start. But I’ve also caught myself wondering… am I building a crutch? Given how passionate I am about Executive Functions, and how… Read More AI and Executive Functions: Is It Helping or Harming You?
I was at the Digital Workplace Conference in Melbourne last week and kept hearing people talk about Skills in Copilot Cowork. It stopped me in my tracks. Not because the concept was unfamiliar, but because I’ve spent the last couple of months exploring and building Skills in Claude. And suddenly the same word was being… Read More Same word. Two very different things. My confusion with ‘Skills’ in AI