The AI industry is obsessed with throughput. How fast can a model generate tokens? How cheaply? How many can fit in a context window? These are the questions animating billions in investment and …
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The Meeting That Can’t Be Automated
I spent six weeks building a presentation about AI. I talk about summarising online classes, creating tasks in real time for educators, algorithms that tell a consultant whether a student is likely to …
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AI Is Making Education Faster. It Could Make It Different.
I just read Mark House's recent post about education and felt the tingle of recognition. I worked with Mark, and lived through some of those years alongside him. Forty years of incremental change. …
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Get In the Chariot
The highest-paid sportsman in the history of human civilisation was a Roman charioteer named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. He competed in 4,257 races, won 1,462 of them, and retired with 35,863,120 …
The Peter Principle: The Structural Problem Your Performance Review Won’t Solve
Laurence Peter proposed his principle in 1969 as satire. Fifty-six years later, most organisations are still running on the exact system he was mocking. The Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy, …
Gall’s Law: Why Your Transformation Programme Will Fail
John Gall was a paediatrician. Not an obvious source of management wisdom. But in 1975 he wrote something about complex systems that should be required reading for every executive who has ever …
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