The Cure. Oh good god no.

I shall have nothing to do with a group chat on my phone. No thank you sir, this is not how one conducts business.

My favourite pub at one time in Bristol was subsumed into the development of a new children's hospital. You couldn't have tortured any NIMBYism out of anyone. What the fuck has got into people?

I imagined a dead-eyed action man with a string you can pull coming out of his back bsky.app/profile/chri...

Agree and it's even more than that. When someone speaks to a powerful person they want to bring a reality into being. This is an infelicitous interaction without authority or sincerity with no binding commitment. It's like providing a talking doll.

The rules, regulations and roles of AI governance (and why it's not enough) Most organisations now have some form of AI governance. A framework, a policy, a committee or a named accountable.

I spent ages researching the boring side of AI governance so I wrote a piece on it so I had something to show for it. www.linkedin.com/pulse/rules-...

Chris, how to boost the number of women leaders? LinkedIn email

Give them fucking jobs. Sheesh, do I have to tell you how to do everything?

Fibery — Operating system for orgs run by nerds Fibery is a work platform that replaces scattered tools and connects teams. Chosen by nerds, appreciated by everyone.

fibery.com

Your reminder that AI is not your "co-worker". This is an intentional worker displacement narrative borne out of marketing. If you believe it to be true, it is likely you still have tea parties with soft toys.

Free Intranet & Digital Workplace Skills Matrix | Spark Trajectory Free, open-source skills matrix for intranet and digital workplace teams. 45 expert-defined skills. Map roles, assess capabilities, and plan development.

Finally live! We updated the Intranet and digital workplace skills matrix to version 2. With the AI yada yada, but perhaps not as much as you might think. Free, open source, blood, sweat and tears. www.sparktrajectory.com/skills?utm_s...

Most AI Users — Especially Coders — Are Unprepared For The Cost Of Paying For Their Actual Token Burn So, let’s do some maths shall we? Assume a business has 100 engineers, and currently pays $200 a month for each engineer to use Claude Max, at a cost of $20,000 a month, or $240,000 a year. Let’s assume on average you pay your engineers $125,000, meaning that your salaries are $12.5 million a year, not considering other costs (this is a toy example). Now imagine that Claude switches to a metered billing system. Let’s assume that, in actuality, these engineers are burning a mere $10 a day in tokens, which brings costs to $365,000 a year, or an increase of $125,000…and remember, this is a team of engineers that were previously used to a subscription that allowed them to spend upwards of $2700 a month in tokens, or nearly 10 times the $300 a month they’re now spending. Let’s be a little more realistic, and bump that number up to $25. Now you’re spending $912,500 a year in tokens. $30 a day puts you over a million bucks. Oops, busy month, you’re now spending $40 a day. Now you’re spending more than 10% of your salaries on compute costs. Anthropic’s own Claude Code documentation says that the average cost is $6 per-developer-per-day, with “daily costs remaining below $12 for 90% of users.” Good news! If you, as an engineer, can limit your usage to $6 a day, you’re actually saving the company money!

Every company you see raving about Claude Code is paying for a $200-a-month subscription that lets them burn $2500+ in tokens, which would cost many organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars if they had to pay their real rates. It's economically unfeasible.
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Selling dollars for a nickel. Good recap.

Content, unlike code, has no innate completeness or correctness.

I’ve been thinking this about content weirdly. Why write now and get dusty when you can write the recipe.

Snap!

Humans and AI Agents: Planning the Org Chart of Tomorrow Why AI agents belong on your org chart — and how to incorporate them.

Do you remember the holocracy bullshit from the last decade and Zappos tried it and nearly went bust and the boss descended into alcoholism and mental illness. We need to talk about bad ideas more in business…

What’s so interesting about this grotesque and macabre idea (do check the quoteskeets) is that there must be a complete absence of market research in the tech world.

A old typed piece of IBM documentation says: "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"

IBM corporate training documentation from 1979

I am worried that the folks I see on LinkedIn doing this are doing it for free.

That's how I feel most days, and when you say people, I mean me.

Last week it was unsafe at any speed and this week it’s enterprise ready! Vibe coding truly does up productivity! (InfoSec team start buying riot gear and building a brig)

To the UX people on the purgatory site blaming AI adoption in organisations on some form of cultural resistance and not the shortcomings of the tools themselves. Shame on you.

Thanks Simon.

I don't wanna be all media-is-biased-and-all-that but today Reform has said they would ban working from home and defund a university because of its debating society and the news is all "Is Starmer XYZ?"

LinkedIn is despicable, but it seems to be the lonely only island of business content and practitioners. Sigh.

LinkedIn is now actually hostile to anything that isn't a video of the creators face let alone long form content. And have you seen mine and Steve's faces?

The AI Epiphanies, Part Three: Mapping and managing the risky epistemic landscape We argue organisations must map employee tasks and journeys to manage epistemic risk and we have come up with a full solution to do so.

For completeness on me socials (and @thompsonsimon.com @sharonodea.com and @lisariemers.bsky.social who actually hang) here's the last post of my series about what we are actually going to do about AI in the enterprise after the hype has died down. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-epi...

Thanks Simon. Would love to hear your perspective on it.

[Or in slopspeak: "It's not impactful... It's hilarious."]

Read enough AI-generated LinkedIn posts and the rhythm becomes a modern shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits. It's hilarious.