Writing
AI Made Writing Free. That Was Supposed to Be Good News.
The cost didn't disappear. It moved.
22 March 2026 · 2 min read
I Built a System Where AI Agents Argue About Strategy
How I use AI to stress-test my thinking
20 February 2026 · 9 min read
The £3 Question
What I learned from an expensive conversation with a chatbot
26 January 2026 · 5 min read
Ralph Isn't the Point. The PRD Is.
What AI coding tools actually teach you
9 January 2025 · 3 min read
I Built This Blog With Claude Code
And it's writing this post right now
30 December 2024 · 6 min read
Sustainable Pace Just Got Faster
Speed won. The question now is how you sustain it.
29 December 2024 · 3 min read
A prompt to your leadership style
Hey ChatGPT, give me some pointers to make me better at my job?
5 April 2024 · 3 min read
The Truth About Authentic Leadership
Being real in a world full of corporate masks
26 March 2024 · 4 min read
25% / 50% / 25% - The Basic Boss Formula
Finding the right balance between boss, peer and servant
18 September 2023 · 7 min read
Am I Technically Dangerous?
Going deep vs going wide
18 September 2023 · 4 min read
End of Year Manager Checklist
Reset your calendar for the new year
18 September 2023 · 2 min read
Leaders Don't Lie
Even when it looks bad on you
18 September 2023 · 3 min read
Leadership as a Service
Your toolkit for solving people problems
18 September 2023 · 5 min read
Managing - Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right
How to deliver communications at every level
18 September 2023 · 4 min read
Meeting Rooms Are Now Free
What COVID taught us about calendar management
18 September 2023 · 5 min read
Reading List
I don't have a big enough ego to tell you that the following books will change your life.
18 September 2023 · 3 min read
The Ideal Senior Engineer?
What good looks like at the senior level
18 September 2023 · 5 min read
W.A.I.S.T.
Why Am I Still Talking
18 September 2023 · 3 min read
You Can't Hum While Holding Your Nose
Leading through incidents without being the hero
18 September 2023 · 4 min read
Practical Postmortems
How to learn from incidents without burning your team
18 October 2018 · 3 min read
So I Think I Burned Out...
Learning to say no before it's too late
2 January 2018 · 2 min read
Am I Jealous of My Team?
The uncomfortable truth about stepping away from the tools
9 July 2016 · 2 min read
Shared Documents Are Not Shared Understanding
Why that 50-page spec doesn't mean what you think it means
10 January 2016 · 2 min read
The Invisible Manager
Why the best managers make no visible impact
26 April 2015 · 3 min read