Somatic Intelligence
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What remains when the hype settles? Explore my thinking as it emerges in brief notes, or read the long-form essays for thoroughly researched and connected ideas.
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Mind the Gap: Why AI 'Adoption' Stalls
How do we navigate the frantic mandate of needing to 'adopt AI' while figuring out our place in tomorrows workforce? Can we do both and still navigate our own ethical lines? It might be easier than you thought and it starts with making work human again.
2026
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The end of a shared truth?
Adobe and Omnicom announced a new partnership this week. The teaser video is slightly cryptic and the landing page reads like 100% AI slop, no human copywriter ever looked at that…
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Cutting corners moves the work
Something I notice on the Lime bikes and delivery drivers: people cutting across other people's lanes, turning without signalling, cutting the corner they shouldn't. It saves them…
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Doing AI well
Doing AI well isn't about learning a new technology. It's about learning to articulate what you want, how you think, and how you actually work best. That's the harder skill, and…
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We rebuilt the typist
For most of a century we had the typist, the secretary, or executive assistant: someone sitting with a manager's dictation, holding all the context and the relationships in their…
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AI works best at the extremes
Two things happened while I listened to a podcast yesterday. The host said "listen to your body" — and an ad for Holland & Barrett spliced in, opening with a guided meditation,…
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Using AI for inefficient tasks while preserving deep thinking
Don't use AI to do the hard stuff for you. Use it to do the things you're inefficient at because computers are designed poorly. What are the things where you end up spending a lot…
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The AI Supply Chain Nobody's Figured Out
AI might be the biggest supply chain risk in our history. But not quite like the Pentagon-Anthropic feud might suggest. Individual fluency frameworks, organisational governance and national policies miss one crucial layer: the conversation about what AI is doing to our work. That conversation starts locally, with one team asking: what's working?
2025
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AI is about relationships, not about technology
Over two thirds of AI-pilots fail, and we're starting to learn why. When AI as the efficiency-maximising tool starts to become a trap and tacit knowledge fades, it becomes even more crucial to re-center organisational learning and a culture of collaboration. Yes, also with AI.
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The Dumbing Down Dilemma
We're at a crossroads concerning how we define work and our place within it, and we have to decide which way we want to go. Do we want to embrace efficiency based on what's easy to measure, or go for what's hard, but worthwhile. And how is AI playing into it all?
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When AI Stops Waiting
That does agentic AI even mean? And what happens when we outsource our human agency to machines? Join me to explore what agentic AI might do for you, what it means for organisations trying to stay ahead of the game, and leave with a few things to think about.
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AI's Adulting Phase
When the hype softens, the real work starts. And the AI-companies have started to get serious about work. Discover how we went from a big experiment to the first signs of genuine usefulness and what we can expect in the coming months.
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A question concerning technology
What might 2025 bring? An artistic new world?
2024
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The Myths of AI
What are the myths we're telling ourselves and each other? What are the stories we forgot? And which stories do we want to shape our work and lives? Do we even have time for stories? Or maybe we're too busy playing a mythical RPG called Life in the 21st Century to tell stories ourselves?
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Psychoanalyse Yourself
Have you ever taken a personality test, nodded sagely at the results, then promptly forgot about them? You're not alone. But what if those forgotten insights could transform your daily life?
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The Third Brain
Feeling swamped by information overload? Turn uncertainty into creativity by harnessing your multiple "brains". From gut feelings to digital second brains, learn practical ways to process overwhelm and generate fresh ideas. It's time to make uncertainty work for you.
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Sync AudioPen with Obsidian
This tutorial guides you through the process of setting up a sync between AudioPen and Obsidian to automatically update your Obsidian vault with notes from AudioPen.
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Sync AudioPen with Notion using Make.com
This tutorial guides you through the process of setting up a sync between AudioPen and Notion using Make.com to automatically update your Notion database with notes from AudioPen.
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Dancing with Control and Uncertainty
As AI becomes our creative partner, how do we find the balance between control and uncertainty? Discover the power of "generative uncertainty" and learn to harness the "fuzziness" of the unknown in your work with – and without – AI.
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Integrating Felt Sense and Cognitive Understanding
The International Hakomi Conference highlighted the power of fuzzy attention - an open awareness that allows hard-to-articulate things to emerge. Integrating the felt sense of the body with the mind's conceptual understanding enables radical, lasting change. In today's mind-focused world, somatic practices might be a key to unlocking deeper insights and foster wellbeing.
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From Delegation to Collaboration
As a society, we have fast-tracked the adoption of remote work and digitally facilitated relationships. Interactions are reported to have become more transactional, often driven by specific needs rather than casual, social connections. I’m arguing that we need to rediscover and redefine collaboration. Collaboration that both puts the individual human relationships at the centre and collaboration that transcends human boundaries.
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