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Human Magic: Leading with Wisdom in an Age of Algorithms
The 1% Book Shelf — Human Magic by Johan Roos (Routledge, 2026). Most technology shifts changed how we work. This one changes who decides. For decades the deal was simple: the tool helped, you chose. AI quietly rewrites that contract. Instead of using a system to inform a decision, we increasingly invite a system to…
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Intent Is Not Inspiration. It Is Infrastructure.
The leaders who scale are not the ones who make the most decisions — they are the ones who make their intent clear enough that other people can decide without them.
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Physical AI Isn’t a Shortlist. It’s a Sequence.
Read or skip? For enterprise architects and delivery leads deciding where physical AI lands first. If you’re tempted to pilot whatever sits at the top of Deloitte’s chart, read on — the ranking and the deployment order are not the same list. If you’ve already mapped your physical-AI work as a dependency graph, you can…
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AI May Make Work Feel Faster Without Making It Faster
AI can cut the effort a task takes without cutting the time it takes — and that gap quietly distorts how we judge productivity.
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The Next Workplace Conflict Is Not Human vs AI
The real workplace divide forming under AI is not between people and machines. It is between the people who are managed by algorithms and the people who manage them.
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Supercommunicators Is A Leadership Book About Alignment, Not Charisma
A Beta Tester Life review of Charles Duhigg’s Supercommunicators, exploring leadership, AI adoption, trust, and conversation alignment.
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Human-Centred Change Is Not Soft. It Is Disciplined.
Human-centred change is often misunderstood as slow, emotional, or permissive. In reality, it is one of the more disciplined forms of transformation because it measures whether people can actually absorb, practise, and sustain the change. The problem hiding in plain sight Most transformation programmes are still designed around activity. On paper, the change appears to…
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Constraints make us better
On David Epstein’s Inside the Box, and why the most useful AI, delivery and governance work of the next two years will be done inside deliberate, well-shaped boxes. Constraints make us better. Read or skip? Read. If you’re running anything to do with AI adoption, platform engineering, governance or enterprise delivery, Epstein’s book gives you…
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Progressive Delivery: The Missing Loop in DevOps
Read or skip? Read, especially if you work in product, DevOps, platform engineering, Agile delivery, AI adoption, or organisational change. This is not just a book about feature flags. It is a book about why modern delivery keeps colliding with human tolerance. Why this book matters now Most technology organisations have spent the last twenty…
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Worker-Positive AI: Why Skills, Not Job Titles, Decide Who Wins the Next Five Years
AI is not erasing UK jobs — it is reorganising them, worker-positive AI. Here is the evidence-led case for skills-based work, with named studies and a practical playbook. The doomsday story about AI and jobs keeps missing the point. Work is not disappearing. It is being reorganised. And the organisations that win the next five…
