How we apply AI matters. While I am skeptical of using AI for decision making, I believe it’s very good at helping to explore questions, and find patterns. — I have serious doubts about the way we are applying AI in society. It’s generally homogenising, can amplify discrimination and has long term negative consequences. BUT… if we stop relying on AI to give us answers, and instead use it to help us explore and ask better questions, then I…

Systems, and humans, like to stay with the status-quo. Is it possible to undergo real transformation without a major external crisis? I’ve spent much of my life looking to “improve myself”, seeking to better understand the world and my path through it. I thought that I was getting places. But…

So many tech companies are laying off their workers, and blaming remote working. But most just assumed that remote working and office working were the same? Duh! Obvious lesson #1: Remote is not the same as… not remote Working in an office sucks. Presenteeism is an incredible waste of resources. Enforced office working erodes families, undermines health, and wastes countless hours on unnecessary commutes.

We need to change the nature of work. It’s that simple. The journey is long and twisted. Here are a few bits of reading I can recommend from my path. — I have always been into evolving organisations. I wrote my first manifesto before I was 20… and I still agree with most of it. But I first started experimenting with organisations about 25 years ago after reading Ricardo Semler’s Maverick. I got our software team to start choosing their own…

When everything is changing, all the time, the rules are a little different. The most important thing to do is change your mind. Three things you can do, right now, to improve your ability to work with continuous change. This is the practical advice bit, in case you don’t feel like reading the rest of my waffle. Invest in training in Active Listening. It’s the foundation…

The Tarot, if you remove the superstition, is a structured map of change. It is the distillation of hundreds of years of observation into the nature of natural systems. Understanding the structure of the Tarot is deeply valuable for anyone seeking to navigate complexity. — The continuum of change The Tarot, and its symbols, are not random. Each card represents a point on a continuum, just like a musical note on a scale. Like musical notes, each card is a progression from the next, and when combined in different ways, they make music.

Tarot is not magic, it needs no spirit guides or esoteric knowledge. The Tarot is a completely natural, practical, language of change. — The idea of Pragmatic Tarot is that the Tarot is a completely natural and practical tool. There is no need for Spirit Guides, there is no fortune telling, there is no need for any esoteric study. …

Temperance: That feeling that, having made it to the other side of an ordeal, you can now do anything, developed some new superpower that lets you fly, see in the dark, breath underwater and turn lead into gold. The Tarot tells us so much about change. I especially love the way it teaches us to face “death”, and what we gain from working through the pain. The sequence of cards around Death in the Tarot have taught me so much.

soo͞″pər-stĭsh′ən: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary — One of the fundamental challenges for any organization that seeks to “be ethical” or “be agile” is the prevalent work culture that emotions have no place at the office. Emotions are always driving us, whether we are aware of them or not. Unless an organization actively makes time for it’s…