Category: Thought Leadership
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Claude Code: The Morning Everything Changed
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February 22, 2026 I almost didnāt bother. I had subscriptions to OpenAI and Gemini already. Iād read the think pieces, listened to the podcasts, absorbed the expert takes. And somewhere in the back of my mind Iād quietly decided: Iām probably not technical enough to get the real benefit from…
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When a Snake Came Out of the Wall
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Yesterday I sat on the living room floor with my four-year-old nephew. He had just watched a movie where the main character eats a mysterious mushroom and shrinks to ten centimeters tall. Small enough to climb furniture. Small enough to see the world from the level of dust and carpet…
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Why Humankind Made Me Step Away from the News
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āand how Iām doing a 30-day news detox A few years ago, I read Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. Itās one of those books that doesnāt just add knowledge ā it subtly rearranges how you see the world. At its core, Humankind challenges one of the most deeply…
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Travel With Charlie, Reimagined
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On using AI to express what words struggle to hold Over the past year, Iāve been quietly contemplating and experimenting with how AI can help me express something Iāve always found difficult to fully capture with words alone: subtle emotion, atmosphere, and lived experience. Not emotion in a sentimental senseābut…
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Drawing the World Back to Life: How a Sketch Taught AI to See
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how designers and creatives can take back control in AI-driven image making by starting with something deeply familiar: drawing. Instead of prompting our way forward with increasingly complex text instructions, we can sketch. We can feed line drawings into image models and let…
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Taking creative control of the AI imaging
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Sketch-first, AI-second: how I used āvisual assistance sketchingā with Nana Banana to regain control in concept development The last few days Iāve been doing a small but telling concept development project for my wifeās creative studio in Copenhagen. Weāve talked for a while about adding a greenhouse in the courtyard…
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Square Life Stages Framework
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What if weāve been celebrating the wrong milestones all along? Instead of centring our lives around decade birthdays ā the 30s, 40s, 50s ā what if we began celebrating the ages that actually feel like turning points? Square Numbers and the Shape of a Lived Life As a curious innovator…
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Wave 3 Transformation: The Missing Leadership Layer
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Across large-scale transformationsādigital, product, AI, operating model, and cultureāa recurring three-wave pattern appears with striking consistency. I have seen it repeat across organizations, industries, and leadership teams for more than fifteen years. Over the past fifteen years, I have worked inside a wide range of large-scale transformationsādigital, product, organizational, and…
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Design Thinking Strategy
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Design Thinking Strategy ā A Framework for Organisations Ready to Transform Design Thinking has been through cycles. Ten years ago it surged with momentumāhigh expectations, colourful post-its, and promises of user-centric transformation. Then came the pushback: āItās hard to scale.ā āIt takes too long.ā āIt doesnāt fit our governance.ā Many…
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The Decompression Zone: Self-Leadership in Times of Creative Destruction
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These months, many industries are shifting at a speed we havenāt seen in decades. Entire disciplines are disappearing one place and other reappearing elsewhere. New roles, new skills, new technologies, new demands. For some, this brings opportunity. For many others, it brings layoffs, restructurings, or the unexpected end of long…