The Transaction of Frustration: AI and the $2-a-Minute Trap
Why modern AI is designed to keep you spinning in a circular loop, the danger of stochastic parrots, and the real cost of your time.
Essays and Analysis
A collection of essays and technical analysis. Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Ethics, Systems and Transformation, and The Consulting Practice.
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
Essays exploring the gap between AI hype and reality, historical biases, and what we delegate to machines.
AI Cosplay
Most corporate AI is theatre, not transformation. AI cosplay is inflating a dangerous market bubble. Here is what it is, why it happens, and what real capability looks like.
The Temporal Trap
A journey through AI consciousness and the Eliza effect. Understanding how our most advanced tools are constrained by historical patterns, even as we ask them to solve tomorrow's problems.
AI and the Pink House
How early AI design decisions create lasting biases. A personal story from my childhood and an experience implementing an early chatbot, highlighting issues around AI and the content it serves.
AI is Learning Our Mistakes
Why artificial intelligence systems learn our historical mistakes without learning from them, and what this means for responsible AI implementation.
Systems and Transformation
Writing on the quiet failure modes of HRIS, data sovereignty, and the structural realities of payroll.
Why Australian Payroll Is Uniquely Hard
Australia’s industrial system makes payroll a structural problem, not a configuration one. This essay explains why most global platforms underestimate what they are being asked to do.
Your HRIS Isn’t the Problem. Your Data Is.
An essay about why most HR systems are really descriptions of organisational history, and why changing platforms rarely changes the underlying model.
If You’re Not Prepared to Go Deep, Don’t Start
A serious HRIS or payroll program is not a software upgrade. This essay is about why these projects need to be treated as structural interventions, and what happens when they are not.
The Data Sovereignty Illusion
When data lives in global platforms, location becomes a story rather than a guarantee. This essay explores the gap between what organisations promise and what they can actually prove.
The Consulting Practice
Articles on finding meaning in the work, strategic acquisition, and navigating consulting as an introvert.
The Power of Narrative Identity in Transformation
Why the best transformations start with knowing who you really are, and how narrative identity shapes both individual and organisational change.
Building a Practice That Doesn't Drain You
Why working with your personality instead of against it leads to better results, happier clients, and sustainable success. Strategies for building a long-term practice.
Networking for Introverts Who Hate Networking
Five strategies for building professional relationships that actually energise you. Learn how to turn your natural preparation and listening skills into a competitive advantage.
Strategic Client Acquisition
Turn your introvert instincts into confident outreach. How to attract ideal clients through strategic, research-based approaches instead of aggressive sales tactics.