When Wisdom Walks
There are a handful of great migrations that happen on this planet every year.
Some ideas take more than three hundred words.
Photo: Paul Clarke
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.
The Sledgehammer Problem
Nobody keeps one tool in the shed. There’s a hammer for the picture hooks, a mallet for the tent pegs, and somewhere at the back, a sledgehammer for the one job a year that actually needs it.
A Relationship, Not a Skill
Microsoft published its annual AI in Education report this week. Most of the coverage will land on the adoption numbers, which are strong - nine out of ten educators, leaders and students have used AI for school-related purposes at least once.
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