Ideas before offerings.
Thinking on AI integration, content strategy, production economics, and what happens when the cost of content approaches zero.
Role Collapse & Emergence · 26 Aug 2026 · 6 min What is a consultant now?
What do you actually buy when you commission a consultant now? On capability mapping for agents as well as people, and why 'I don't know yet' became part of the job.
Translation Layer · 20 Jul 2026 · 6 min Your AI project doesn't start with a developer
Most AI projects don't fail at the build. They fail because nobody mapped the architecture first - an established discipline that AI delivery quietly dropped.
Do we need Fable 5?
Compression Economics · 20 Jul 2026 · 5 min
The job roles of the AI future
Role Collapse & Emergence · 9 Jul 2026 · 7 min
Don't build your business on something someone else can switch off
Operational Convergence · 15 Jun 2026 · 5 min
Designing for thinking: a framework for AI-augmented learning that doesn't make us worse
Translation Layer · 15 Feb 2026 · 6 min
The rush to summarise: what enterprise L&D loses when AI reads for us
The Moving Finish Line · 8 Feb 2026 · 7 min
What should live in your head when AI remembers everything?
Translation Layer · 1 Feb 2026 · 6 min
Is Google's Nano Banana 2 Dropping This Week?
Compression Economics · 19 Nov 2025 · 5 min
Unilever Scales Their AI Content Factory with IPG - So What Does Product Photography Look Like in the Future?
Compression Economics · 12 Sept 2025 · 8 min
Nano-Banana - Google's New Mystery Model: Why All the Content You're Seeing Is 'Like That'
Compression Economics · 27 Aug 2025 · 7 minSignal, not noise.
Occasional thinking on AI integration, content economics, and what's actually changing.