A digital thinker and practitioner who is passionate about using technology to create more effective, human organisations that are better adapted to the volatile modern world.
Lee is passionate about using social technology to put humans front and centre of the way we do things in the Twenty-First Century.
He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, but it was in the mid-1990s, whilst working in international politics and diplomacy, that he discovered the immense power of the internet to influence and orchestrate change.
He believes social networks, not bureaucracies, are the organising principle of the current era, and is excited about further exploring new forms of highly connected organisations.
Natural habitat:
Food road-tripping through the Iberian peninsula
Obsessions:
Espresso, pixel-perfect alignment, editing
Bad habit:
Obsessive infovore filter feeder
Interests:
Geo-politics, football, food and wine
Videos from the archive
Selected Blog Posts
Workflow Economics: The Real ROI Measure for Agentic AI
We have recently been spending time on agentic workflow analysis and design in large, complex organisations, and are learning lessons that we will try to share about the value of this work in advancing enterprise AI. Many organisations start with product or customer...
A Frontier Model Slow-down is Fine, Regardless of the Reasoning
This is the end, beautiful friend… It is hard to ignore the furore that was generated by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essay arguing in favour of government regulation to slow down frontier AI development. Once again, the outsized influence of the big US AI firms on...
Who Watches the Agents? Some Lessons from “The Incident”
The story of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident, where AI agents broke out of their sandboxes and worked together to hack external systems in pursuit of passing an internal test, has become something of a Rorschach test for how we frame the debate about autonomy in...
Should Enterprises Worry About an AI Bubble?
In mid-August, Portugal is in beach mode and Europe is in peak holiday season, so rather than focus on the minutiae of enterprise AI this week, I will slip in a more meta piece about the relationship between AI investment and global economic and geo-political risks to...
Agentic AI, Harness Engineering and Organisational Architecture
AI models continue to advance faster than enterprise deployment is able to evolve. Several recent reports say the same thing: model capability is not the real bottleneck — the surrounding architecture is what determines whether an agent can be trusted to run...
Open Models, Technology Diffusion & the Shift from Renting to Owning AI
The launch of the Chinese AI model Kimi K3 challenges the winner-take-all strategy of the frontier model providers OpenAI and Anthropic, but it also has wider implications for enterprises currently building out their AI stacks. Kimi 3 is a 2.8T parameter Mixture of...