Living in the future
Personal essays, observations and strategic perspectives on the cognitive, technological and human shifts shaping the next generation of organisations, ventures and society.
Personal observations, analyses, and strategic perspectives.
Systems Thinking for the AI Era: Why Architecture Beats Heroism
The majority of AI implementation failures trace back to a system nobody mapped, not a model that misbehaved. Systems thinking is the skill that catches this before deployment, not after.
$285 billion disappeared over a markdown file. The real damage hasn't started.
On January 30, 2026, Anthropic released a set of open source plugins for Claude Co-work. One of them, a legal contract review tool, was essentially 200 lines of structured markdown. First-year law school content dressed in intelligent
The Cognitive Architecture of AI-Human Teams
How organisations must redesign their decision-making structures when intelligence becomes distributed between humans and machines.
Strategic Foresight in Uncertain Times
How to build adaptive strategy when traditional planning frameworks break down under rapid technological change.
Framework Fatigue
The greatest risk in the AI era is not lack of frameworks. It is the illusion that frameworks replace thought.