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Thinking on transformation and AI

Field notes on organisational transformation, operating model design, and applied AI.

Latest · 13 April 2026 · 17 min read

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I Applied Pascal's Wager to AI Consciousness.

I applied Pascal's Wager to AI consciousness and built an entire AI operating system around the answer. Persistent memory, graduated autonomy, and one design decision I can't commercially justify. Here's the full technical architecture and what happened.

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09 March 2026 · 13 min read

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The False Economy of Lobsters

why a middleware can be a hinderance

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05 March 2026 · 6 min read

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The new bottleneck isn't productivity. It's verification.

AI has collapsed the cost of building. The constraint that replaced it — knowing whether what you built is correct — is one most organisations haven't started solving.

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26 February 2026 · 3 min read

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Rapid Experimentation: How AI Transforms the Economics of Delivery

The most expensive product decision isn't selecting the wrong feature—it's failing to test alternatives. AI fundamentally inverts the economics of product delivery.

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07 February 2026 · 3 min read

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Making Better Decisions Faster: AI-Powered Prioritisation and Strategic Alignment

Product teams struggle with decision-making not due to lacking frameworks, but because important decisions involve competing priorities and incomplete information. AI transforms this from high-stakes events into continuous, evidence-based exploration.

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02 February 2026 · 4 min read

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Discover Phase Mastery: An Approach for AI-Native Teams

Discovery processes don't lag because teams lack research capabilities—they struggle with critical judgment calls about what to investigate, when to conclude research, and how to interpret findings. AI dramatically lowers the cost of these activities.

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22 January 2026 · 3 min read

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Prompting Is Dialogue, Not Instructions

Effective AI interaction requires treating prompting as multi-turn dialogue rather than single-instruction commands. The key is sequencing and attention-priming over clever wording.

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14 January 2026 · 10 min read

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Why Your Product Team Is Stuck (And It's Not Your Fault)

Your product team is not stuck because of effort or capability. The operating model is the bottleneck, slowing synthesis, prioritisation, and experimentation.

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