Oct 21, 2026 | Newsletters
🎓 “The basic DNA of good learning experiences is trying to do something and getting feedback.” – Julie Dirksen Hello Reader, Coaching is a meta-skill that unlocks any other skill. If you’ve never been in my Ai104 workshop, Coaching with AI, I am going to be teaching an interactive workshop this week for the AI Practitioners Summit, called Create an AI Coach to Learn Anything. This will teach you practical techniques that you can use immediately for learning, reflection, and growth. Create an…
Oct 14, 2026 | Newsletters
🧭 “The purpose of meetings is not to talk – the purpose of meetings is to arrive at ideas, solutions, plans, and decisions.” – Alexander Kjerulf Hello Reader, I have tried all the AI meeting notetakers over the past few years. Fireflies, Otter, Fathom, Monologue, and more have all had a turn in my systems. Traditionally, I give them a month or two, and get dissatisfied at some feature or annoying user friction – until six months ago. I found Granola. (Disclaimer: by clicking my affiliate…
Oct 7, 2026 | Newsletters
⏩ “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African proverb Hello Reader, An AI Working Group ships projects. Tools are changing faster than humans can keep up. Most teams and organisations are throwing Copilot or Claude licenses to their crew, with a quick ‘good luck!’ and maybe an inscrutable warning about token counts. Making mistakes can be costly, when you rely on a paycheck. There isn’t a structure for risk-taking or innovation with AI in corporate teams,…
Sep 30, 2026 | Newsletters
🏎️ “AI agents don’t have a speed limit, but the person managing them still does.” – Kieran Klaasen Hello Reader, The fastest way to build a disappointing AI agent is to begin with a vague, grand ambition. “Handle my marketing for me.” “Run all our customer service.” “Become my chief of staff.” Those are only aspirations, not workflows. An agent cannot reliably operate within a fog bank. A useful agent starts with clear goals: Turn this meeting transcript into decisions, owners, deadlines, and…
Sep 24, 2026 | Newsletters
📊 “Context engineering is the strategic process of selecting, packaging, and managing the most relevant information for each step.” – Antonio Gullí Hello Reader, In July 2025, Gartner told AI leaders that “context engineering is in, and prompt engineering is out.” The past year, people on the bleeding edge of AI have been paying attention to framing. 💡 Context engineering prepares everything prior to the prompt. Even the best prompts will fail without the right context. Giving AI backstory…
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…
