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Why senior leaders who save their difficult conversations for their resignation are failing the very organisations they were trusted to lead, and why the leaders receiving those resignations need to…
You know the moment. You are forty minutes into a meeting that could have been an email, your laptop is perched on your knees, and somewhere around the third slide…
Read more →1. The moment the room changes Most of us have sat in this meeting. Someone has spent weeks on a proposal, working through the options, talking to the people who…
Read more →The first wave of AI changed how we find information, and the second is changing how we get things done. The next wave will change where people manage their lives,…
There is a man on the internet who calls himself Pliny the Liberator, and for a little over two years he has made a public habit of getting new AI…
There is a post doing the rounds this week quoting Elon Musk’s view that SpaceX could eventually be worth orders of magnitude more than the entire global economy, with the…
Read more →AI has collapsed the cost of turning an idea into working software. It has not collapsed the cost of deciding which of those ideas deserve to survive, and that gap…
Read more →For most of S3’s life, the honest answer to “can I just mount a bucket and point my application at it?” was some version of “sort of, if you are…
Read more →Many of the scams that hurt our clients don’t begin with an attack on our systems; they begin with a message. Over the next few weeks we’re rolling out Scam…
I recently saw an advert suggesting that approving an AI budget without ROI metrics was the equivalent of driving blind. It is a neat line, and it captures a belief…
