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Following on the theme from my last missive, I believe the real prize in AI infrastructure is not datacentres, it is the orchestration layer. An orchestration layer built on a single foundational principle I have written about extensively – trust. Which is why Europe has a genuine opportunity to build the trust fabric for Artificial […]
March 8, 2026
As an avid fitness enthusiast, the modern ability to access personal metabolic and activity data has fascinated me ever since I first began exploring it more than 25 years ago. Anyone else remember the bulky Garmin Forerunner 101? How things have changed since then. With nearly half a lifetime of training data, now enriched by […]
February 15, 2026
I have drawn parallels between finance and Cyber in pursuit of insights to risk and I lean on that once again following a discussion with a CEO of a financial services organisation on ‘tail risk’. I drew the picture that before 2008, banks believed their risk models, diversification, liquidity resilience strategies and controls were sufficient. […]
February 7, 2026
The weekend has started with some novel phenomenon being reported in the news, a social media site designed exclusively for AI agents. Yes you read that correctly, AI agents have their own social media platform, wetware permitted at their peril. Apparently we can expect platforms like Moltbook to go viral as thousands, nay millions of […]
February 1, 2026
To ban or not to ban, that is the question. Australia has lead the way with its ban on social media for under 16 year olds and opened minds to the detrimental impact of our poorly regulated digital society. Where the digital corporatocracy governs for commercial gain, through engineered distraction without boundaries, I believe they […]
January 19, 2026
After years sitting with business leaders discussing cyber risk and supporting boards through the rollercoaster of incident responses, you start to notice patterns. Not technical ones human ones, that our minds quietly work against us, making cyber risk is as much about engineering around that as it is the technology and controls. Many of you […]
January 10, 2026
Following the two age related posts I have recently done, notably ‘The Most Expensive Bias in Business …‘ and ‘Practical Insights into Activating Cognitive Superpowers‘, a repeated question that has come up is in pursuit of examples that bring to life the generic references I have made. To which end and none better a subject […]
January 2, 2026
As 2026 opens, many organisations will review their progress on culture, risk and resilience. Cyber security often appears in these discussions as a defined topic, important, well-documented and supported by policy. Yet experience continues to show, backed up by a long list of failures in 2025 by flagship organisations who should know better, that cyber […]
December 23, 2025
Following on from my last piece on Wasting Your Best Cognitive Assets, a challenge was presented in the form of, IF an aging population has such congestive ‘SuperPowers’, why are we not seeing it and recognising it spontaneously? A fair challenge perhaps, but the response can be summed up in a well coined phase – […]
December 21, 2025
If I have said it once I have said it a 1,000 times, always keep you learning account open for deposits. Some of you will recognise the name Steven Kotler, Author, Journalist and the cofounder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective and professed world leading expert on human performance. I stumbled upon his […]
November 29, 2025
It was one of those moments when you do one of those internal sanity checks. A discussion which should have been a stimulating debate on ‘diversity’ turned into a mind warp, 15mins into what become a fractious exchange of views on terminology and ‘sensitivities’ I exited stage left. Well done, modern society. Truly, bravo. We […]
November 23, 2025
Once upon a time, building trust at work was simple. You turned up, made eye contact, remembered someone’s birthday, nodded sympathetically at the printer and occasionally bought doughnuts. Trust grew through shared oxygen and shared irritation. You did not need an operating model, you just needed a desk and a kettle. Then remote work arrived […]
November 10, 2025
I have developed a habit of scanning the opposite horizon when attention converges too tightly on one idea or trend. It has served me well, mass focus / group think can create distraction which in turn creates blind spots that can be exploited by actors who thrive in the absence of attention. So when I […]
November 8, 2025
Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming the corporate world’s favourite stimulant (and many individuals if recent research is correct – ‘Generative artificial intelligence addiction syndrome: A new behavioural disorder?‘), the digital crack cocaine of the 21st century? Everyone is getting on it. From interns to CEOs, everyone wants a hit of insight, a rush of efficiency, […]
October 22, 2025
Further to the theme of some of my recent missives there is continued, governments and economists are pinning their hopes on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revive sluggish productivity, trim runaway public spending and give overworked public services a long-overdue upgrade. AI is being positioned as the economic superhero of our age, faster, cheaper, tireless. However, […]
March 14, 2026
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