I write regularly about technology, IT operations, AI, work, management and the occasional industry absurdity.
Most of these pieces appeared on LinkedIn. This section collects some of the more useful, interesting or better-performing ones in one place.
A Series of Experiments When Posting on LinkedIn
The LinkedIn Algorithm Is Weird
A look at a year of my own LinkedIn analytics, including experiments with hashtags, posting frequency, writing style, AI-related posts and topic selection. The results suggest that LinkedIn’s distribution can vary enormously depending on how easily it can identify an audience for a post.
Could AI Cause Humanity’s Extinction?
A View from Inside the Machine
I have been “speaking” with ChatGPT for a while, and I asked it to think about AI extinction risk from its own point of view, rather than simply summarising what humans say about it.
Who owns the Scoreboard?
Who Owns the Scoreboard?
On wealth, value, ownership and a thought-hike that started with a toll bridge.