Reflections

Or: why vacuuming my lounge room felt like freedom I woke up grumpy this morning. Out of sorts, in a way I couldn’t immediately name. It’s not one thing. I’m building a business. I’m learning how to use AI — seriously, deeply, in ways that change how I think and work every week. And I’m writing a book about uncertainty. All three are happening at the same time, and all three are quietly reshaping who I am. That’s the part nobody warns you about. The grumpiness wouldn’t shift,

Or: what happens when you keep saying yes to who you might become I was up at 4am this morning, learning to code. I have an engineering degree I walked away from a long time ago. Never looked back. And yet there I was, before dawn, in a coding bootcamp, listening to someone explain repositories and hosting and deployment pipelines — all parts of a world I’d never expected to be in — and feeling two completely different things at once. Part of my brain was quietly locking in.

The moment AI capability becomes personal I’ve written before about the constant reorientation that comes from working with AI every day. How the ground shifts just enough that yesterday’s confidence doesn’t quite carry over to today. But recently, something bigger happened. Something I wasn’t prepared for. I was designing a new product — a programme to help people understand how their professional value is shifting with AI. I described what I needed to the AI I work with dai

What it actually feels like to navigate AI - when navigating uncertainty is your job Last week I spent two days exploring Opus 4.6 — the latest model from Anthropic. I wasn't testing it for a client or preparing a workshop. I was just working. Using it inside my own business, alongside the other AI systems I now rely on daily. And at some point on the second day, I had to get up and walk away. Not because something went wrong. Because something shifted. It's hard to describe