Writing
From the Institute.
Essays on AI, human agency, intergenerational investment, and the work of building organisations that activate rather than erode.
RSS feedPersonal Agency in the Age of Automation
An intentional, capacity-expanding relationship with AI — multiplying judgement, not replacing it.
Intergenerational Investment
Established leaders and early-career professionals navigating development through mutual exchange.
Building Organisational Capability
Frameworks that compound expertise rather than erode it, building the next generation of subject matter experts.
The Catalytic Converter Arrives
Why we built a skill to help writers amplify genuine insight avoiding negative manipulation, and why this matters for how we communicate in an age of noise.
The Return of the Thin Stack: Software in the Age of AI Synthesis
We traded machine efficiency for developer speed. Now that AI writes the code, it is time to buy back the bare metal.
Vibecoding for the Planet: Apportioning UK Cloud Carbon Footprints in the AI Era
How compiling thin-stack native binaries offsets the massive grid-scale power consumption of UK data centres.
When the Scaffolding Becomes the Job: Notes from a Fortnight of Operational AI
A fortnightly synthesis of AI strategy, healthcare technology, and transformation signals for practitioners navigating the human side of change.
Creed Before Capability
In an AI-augmented ecosystem, the things organisations have traditionally hired for move down the priority list. Here is what moves up, and what education needs to produce.
The Ocean Ecosystem: A Post-Transformation Paradigm for AI
After twenty years of transformation programmes, the ocean offers the clearest model for what determines whether AI adoption actually works — and data is only one of four elements.
You Were Made For This
AI is not taking the world. It is clarifying it, revealing what has always mattered most. Five missions for the people willing to step into what only they can do.
Four things leaders must get right on automation and AI
The automation opportunity is not just a growth play. For many organisations it is increasingly a capacity question. What separates transformation that lasts from programmes that fail to return benefits.
Four things leaders must get right on automation and AI
The automation opportunity is not just a growth play. For many organisations it is increasingly a capacity question. What separates transformation that lasts from programmes that fail to return benefits.
Origin and destination
On knowing where you came from, and why it matters more than ever.
On building AI that activates rather than replaces
If the goal is human flourishing, every adoption decision becomes a question about who gets activated and what they get to keep.
Towards more than human
On the different classes of Human + AI engagement emerging, and why agency matters more than adoption.
Who's building the next SMEs?
On capability debt, the silent gap GenAI and remote work are widening, and four structural moves to close it.