A new month, a new series. Over the next three posts I want to work through the three biggest debates AI has started inside our organizations. Not the tidy trend pieces, the actual arguments, the ones being had in planning rooms and skip-levels and late-night Slack threads, where reasonable people look at the same technology … Continue reading Entry-Level Roles: Grow or Gut?
Two-pizza teams are over. The forever layoff era grinds on. And a Wall Street bank hit 90% AI adoption through peer learning, not mandates. July 2026 was a month of paradoxes in the world of work. Here are the top stories, the data, and what they mean for HR.
Stop reading about AI and start building with it. This is a 30-day challenge: pick one small real thing, build it with whatever tool you already have, ship by day thirty. Take it to your team for the real unlock. I am doing it right alongside you, working or broken.
A month of building AI agents, and 90% still broke. Six hard-won lessons on building, dependencies, and failing loudly, from an HR practitioner.
Still the month of AI posts. Last week I wrote about the shift into Phase 2, the phase where we stop playing and start producing. This week is about the harder, quieter work underneath that shift. Not adopting AI. Unlearning. Pulling out every belief we built our careers on, laying it on the table, and … Continue reading Why We Can’t Quit Dashboards (And What It Says About Going AI-Native)
July is the month of AI posts. No disclaimers, no apology, just outright embracing the trend. After all, if you aren't writing about AI or with AI, are you even writing at all? Every week this month, I will bring you both musings about an AI-enamoured (or disenamoured) world and practical tips on how to … Continue reading The AI Maturity Model: What Does Phase 2 Look Like?
Guess what every HR professional is building with AI right now? Based on what I’ve seen over the past couple of months, there’s a clear pattern emerging. Almost everyone is creating one of two things. The first is a productivity agent — something that helps them stay on top of their schedule, summarize information, or … Continue reading Are dashboards dead?
March already feels like a long time ago, yet it was a surprisingly memorable month, and not just because it was my birthday month. I really should get these monthly wrap-up posts out sooner, but before everything fades into the blur of “earlier this year,” here’s a quick look at three moments from March that … Continue reading What happened: March 2026
There’s a new economic term making the rounds in tech circles. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spotlighted it in his January 2025 post on X. Then, a senior leader brought it up in a recent conversation. Having heard it more than twice in the past year, I got curious: why is Jevons’ Paradox suddenly everywhere in … Continue reading Jevons’ Paradox: Why is it suddenly popular again?
When Julia had a brilliant idea recently, she chose not to send it as a simple one-liner. Instead, she used ChatGPT to transform it into a comprehensive email for the leadership team. What started as a paragraph ballooned into a lengthy exposition complete with made up market analysis, generalised implementation strategies, and various unrealistic scenarios. … Continue reading Workslop: The latest productivity killer
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