Sep 17, 2026 | Newsletters
🗂️ “An AI Agent runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal.” – Simon Willison Hello Reader, Generative AI makes things for you. Agentic AI does things for you. This distinction, between making and doing, is the next step on the exponential curve of capability. An AI Agent can initiate and execute tasks independently, finding the best way to transition from an initial state to a goal state by using any tools it has available, as often as it is capable of doing. In his excellent primer on AI…
Sep 10, 2026 | Newsletters
🌱 “It’s clear that we are well into the adoption phase of AI, but not everyone is adapting.” – Lou Compagnone Hello Reader, I was in Wellington this week for the #AotearoaAISummit, the annual festival hosted by the AI Forum New Zealand. I livetweeted the event on LinkedIn (live-posted? doesn’t have the same flavour) on the hashtag linked above, and I made AI anime illustrations of all the speakers. You can see my takeaways (and my art) below: (Please note – other than the illustrations, no AI…
Sep 3, 2026 | Newsletters
🗄️ “Companies need to turn their workflows, domain knowledge, and accumulated judgment into AI systems that improve with each use. The companies that build this early will have an advantage that is hard to replicate, regardless of any new individual model capability.” – Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Hello Reader, The meat computers inside our skulls have a network, when working together on a team. The information stored on this network can be called institutional knowledge. The way the work…
Aug 27, 2026 | Newsletters
📑 “The key to content marketing is simple: all you have to do is show up and answer questions your right people are asking.” – Ash Ambirge Hello Reader, SEO gets your website listed in the directory, but AEO gets your website recommended by the concierge. In the previous decade, when you wanted your website to get found by your target market, you used Search Engine Optimisation to show on the first page of search results. I n the coming decade, people aren’t going to Google to ask their…
Aug 20, 2026 | Newsletters
🌱 “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.” – Ursula K Leguin…
Aug 13, 2026 | Newsletters
🗣️ “Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation.” – Peter Elbow Hello Reader, This past Monday I presented at the Christchurch AI Meetup. We meet the 2nd Monday of every month at EPIC Innovation. If you are a local, you can join our Meetup group to get notified of upcoming events. You can watch the replay here. We had 3 speakers presenting on…
