by Richard Stockley | Oct 2, 2026 | AI, Career, Foundation, Leadership, Time Management
Write the Intent, Not the Plan We spend our working lives specifying what we want from systems and almost no time specifying what we want from ourselves. And when we do try, we usually write the wrong document. The five-year question Ask someone where they want to be...
by Richard Stockley | Sep 30, 2026 | AI Ml, Governance And Strategy, Transformation
The Transformation Nobody Announced The largest change most organisations are living through right now was never announced, never scoped, and has no owner. It’s happening anyway, from the bottom up, while the people at the top work out what to say about it. A...
by Richard Stockley | Sep 29, 2026 | AI Ml, Governance And Strategy, Technology, Transformation
Somebody Has to Hold the Ruler The universities are not going to out-build the frontier labs, and they have stopped trying. What they are building instead is the measuring equipment, and that may be the more important job. In June the UK government put up to £60...
by Richard Stockley | Sep 24, 2026 | AI Ml, Governance And Strategy, Technology, Transformation
Still Queuing at the Door The story says young people will stop going to university now that the machine knows everything. The applications say otherwise. The jobs at the other end are the part that has gone. By the 30 June UCAS deadline, 695,740 people had applied to...
by Richard Stockley | Sep 20, 2026 | AI Ml, Governance And Strategy, Technology, Transformation
The Street Is the Laboratory Now Science used to take its time behind a closed door. With AI, the experiment is running on our roads, in our phones and in front of all of us, at the speed of a funding round. On 21 June 1948, at the University of Manchester, the...
