Thoughts
Once a week I sit down somewhere good for breakfast and write about what AI is changing: about work, about value, and about who gets to build. Here’s everything so far.
Latest thoughts
What AI is really changing about work, value and organisations.
Thought· 9 min read
This morning I am at Dubai Airport. I booked a taxi from my hotel at 5:43am. By 6:03, I had checked in and passed passport control, which involved me walking through a tunnel of cameras.
Thought· 7 min read
I was looking at a few new tools last week.
Thought· 7 min read
Then, in the air, I drew two lines with my finger. The first was their job as it runs today. The second was their job as it will run in three years. He went quiet, and then, like slow motion, you coul
Thought· 10 min read
AI and agents are quietly removing the need or requirement for this large scale and complex transformation. The business that never built the monolith may now be the one best placed to win.
Thought· 10 min read
I’m back at Surf Abu Dhabi.
Thought· 12 min read
We were billing for the hours it took an expert to deliver the thing. Expertise was the justification for the rate. Time was the unit.
Thought· 14 min read
By the end of a one or two-day session, something measurable has almost always shifted for attendees, call it a ten to fifteen percent productivity uplift. A small but real change in how they work day
Thought· 12 min read
The manager role was invented to solve a coordination problem between humans - different contexts, different skills, different motivations all needing to point in the same direction. AI is dissolving.
Thought· 6 min read
It has been quiet on AI with Breakfast the last few weeks - travel, war, and remote schooling have all taken their turn.
Thought· 9 min read
Why the next wave of AI isn’t about building better agents - it’s about verticalising into the work itself.
Thought· 10 min read
Today I am on “holiday” in Thailand for half term and it’s great to be in a country where fried meat and rice for breakfast is a staple and what a bargain for only 8AED (£1.80) in an area called Ban Chang in Rayong.
Thought· 14 min read
This week, AI for Breakfast is coming to you from my kitchen. Due to ongoing missile attacks on Abu Dhabi - and a shelter-in-place alert going off about twenty minutes ago so instead, I am having a lovely bowl of granola with yogurt and honey at home. I am not even going to share a photo because I forgot to take one before I eat it all and started writi…
Built Before Breakfast
Alongside the thoughts, I build small, real tools with AI. Read the story, try the tool, then build your own.
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