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The ideas that shape how organisations think about AI and work don't arrive fully formed in a three hundred words LinkedIn post. Some of them have taken three decades to develop. Some of them only became clear when I was standing in front of a boardroom trying to explain why the obvious answer was wrong.
This is where that thinking lives.
Not hot takes. Not summaries of other people's arguments. Original writing - the kind that tries to say something true rather than something timely. Essays that start from a named framework and go somewhere with it. Responses to significant moments that connect what's happening now to an argument I've been making for years.
If something I've written here is still worth reading six months after I published it, I've done my job.
We still pay people for their time. Not their impact, not their outcomes, not the value they create - their time. And that single idea, forged in the fires of the Industrial Revolution, is the invisible hand shaping almost every AI decision being made in organisations right now.
Computers are useless. All they can do is give you answers.
We are using one of the most transformative technologies in human history to make Victorian ways of working a bit quicker and a bit cheaper. That is the sum total of our ambition, and we need to do better.
If something here connects with a challenge your organisation is navigating, let's explore it further.
Diana Boulter | DBA Speakers | diana@dbaspeakers.com | +44 7554 440537
