The River.
Ideas flow here. 90 podcast episodes. 16 years of writing. Filter by mood — or let the current carry you.
The trivial matters more than you think
How a missing comma cost $5M, a typo crashed Wall Street, and what this means for your business
The £15M Paradox
A radio station that loses money on purpose — and why it's genius
10x your AI results with this ultimate context engineering lesson
The single most important skill for getting great output from AI
When's the right time to go all-in with AI?
Karpathy vs Pichai — a debate on AI readiness for business
Signal from Noise
The methodology for turning overwhelm into accessible insight
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42 years to build my first app
My journey from journalist to AI builder — and what it taught me about late bloomers
ELephantLM: the AI that never forgets!
An LLM that learns from its mistakes — game changer for agents
Chain of thought prompting: the technique that changed everything
Early AI adoption proof — I was writing about this before it was cool
brAIn: thinking of the future?
Dragon Hatchling — a paper that reboots how we think about AI architecture
Storyselling
Creating solution stories that unite clients and colleagues
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Why the Core Model changed my life
Still the best information architecture framework I know
Does AI work?
OpenAI's GDPval research — LLMs in the organisation, tested
How to execute a content strategy
The evergreen playbook — still my most practical piece
China's got AI in the bag
30 years journalism + months of research — who's really winning the AI race?
The STAR Framework
Cosmic storytelling principles that bypass cynicism through awe
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I'm working on the Zeitgeist
Building a business intelligence platform with AI — the toughest project of my career
Start storyselling (stop storytelling)
Why narrative without strategy is just entertainment