Are billable hours losing meaning?

Professional Services has always been selling availability as effort. AI makes effort irrelevant to the buyer, so what happens to the timesheet?

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Everyone Was Being Reasonable About Not Addressing the Problem

When leadership means doing the boring analysis nobody else has a reason to do.

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Everyone's Own Version of Everything

On hyper-personalisation, and what we trade away for it.

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What I Learned From My First Fractional Engagement

The dynamics don't change. The matrix just hides them.

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Empathy is Not a Blind Spot

On working with what's there, rather than what you'd design from scratch.

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Translating English into English

Never complain, never explain (over email)

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Escalation Has a Reputation Problem

An escalation, handled well, should never be anything to fear.

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It's Still About What People Need

Two conversations about where AI is headed left me uncertain about the answers — but clearer about what still matters.

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AI in Delivery: I Didn't Really Build This Website

The most honest thing I can say about this website is that I didn't really build it. And yet, here it is.

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Twice in Singapore

The same city, similar briefs, very different experiences — and the differences had less to do with Singapore than with me.

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AI in Delivery: The Agents That Gave Me My Time Back

How two simple Copilot agents changed the way I work — and why the hardest part wasn't the technology.

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