Why AI Development Will Not Pause Voluntarily
AI companies may agree on safety standards, but commercial competition and the race for sovereign models make a voluntary pause in AI development unlikely.
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The work is part of the story. So is the person doing it.
I write about engineering leadership, resilient systems, AI-assisted prototyping and the practical decisions behind getting complex work shipped.
This site is also a record of the questions I keep returning to, the things I build to understand them, and the life that gives those questions some meaning.
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Why Appraisals Create Anxiety Instead of Improving Performance
Most companies say that appraisals are meant to improve performance. In many organisations, they do something else. They create anxiety, paperwork and political behaviour …
Read post →Maybe the Young Generation Is Not the Problem
Young employees are often blamed for asking clear questions, wanting a life outside work, and changing jobs. I see those as sensible responses to unclear work and …
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Attention Is All They Need. Yours.
A proposal for an independent, user-led spam filter for app notifications.
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Using OpenClaw Alongside ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
How I use OpenClaw as a local automation layer alongside ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, including a channel-neutral notification architecture and the practical limits I have …
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Turning an Old Kindle into a Personal Dashboard
A small experiment using a Kindle, Google Apps Script and AI to build a low-cost personal dashboard.
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