SELECTED BLOG POSTS
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. Co-founder Sam...
Fail, Learn and Repeat. Or not really?
Photo by Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash Should we always encourage failure-as-learning, and when might this risk de-motivate individual contributors, asks Sebastian Kowalski in this Link*Log. Learning by iterating is not the same as accepting overall failure At...
Is email to blame for what is wrong with office communication?
Or are Meetings? Or Slack messages? Or Teams Channels? Or, maybe it's simply us... ‘This meeting could have been an email!’ How many of us have uttered these words under our breath, sat in yet another pointless meeting? Meetings like these waste so much time, and...
Little Helper, not Big Brother
Photo by Jan Huber on Unsplash 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...
Improving our ability to navigate macro volatility in a world where we can’t predict it
A final few links and observations as we close 2022 on the skills we need to develop if we are to safely and successfully navigate complexity and macro-level volatility. From Tochka-Us to Twitterdammerung in 2022 I am not going to make the mistake of trying to predict...
Moving From Ad-hoc Hybrid Working to a Hybrid Work System in 2023
In this edition, Lee considers how we can learn the lessons of ad-hoc hybrid work and create a fully-featured hybrid work system to help us hit the ground running in 2023.