Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Lee considers the debate around AGI, AI as a platform and the immense potential of modular operations + AI to improve the way we build and manage organisations Making Brains vs Connecting Brains My co-founder Livio and I used to share an apartment in London in the...

Organisational Evolution & the Power of Competitive Ecosystems

5 perspectives on how to harness the power of evolution within competitive environments to improve our organisations.  Kevin Kelly is a kind of techno-elder, and I often enjoy his musings, such as this interview with Noah Smith that references ‘What Technology Wants’,...

Let’s (Not) Make Bots In Our Own Image

Approximation & Interpolation It is impossible to ignore the wave of excitement, hype and alarm that the launch of ChatGPT – and its recent adoption by Microsoft as an enhancement to its Bing search engine – has created in the past couple of weeks....

Little Helper, not Big Brother

Amid the AI hype and fear-mongering, there is value today in creating augmentative little helpers in the workplace, rather than trying to simply replace people. We make our tools, and our tools destroy us in a robot uprising make us Amid reports of ChatGPT being used...

The Potential of Data Mesh

Following up on Cerys’ exploration of building data capabilities last week, I want to discuss the potential that a Data Mesh approach holds for businesses to achieve this, compared to more centralised data warehouses and data lakes (or even data lakehouses!). Perhaps...