Had a lot of fun writing this one. Hope you enjoy it: AI can't help you if you spend your day talking to colleagues cantbefired.substack.com/p/a…

0.5% stamp duty on UK listed stocks is another great example of how our taxation system sucks.

Deep cut. Nice.

I guess now we find out which websites were running on PHP, but this one might be my favourite so far

Your employees are quietly robbing you with AI, and you probably deserve it cantbefired.substack.com/p/y…

💡 Most people talk about AI in terms of the problems it solves directly. I think that misses the point. ⏱️The real impact of AI is second- and third-order: it has collapsed the cost and time of building software by an order of magnitude. When software becomes 5× cheaper and 5× faster to create, the business case changes for EVERYTHING. The closest example I can think of, is injection moulding. Plastics didn’t just replace wood or metal. Injection moulding made complexity effectively free. Once you’d paid for the mould, adding ribs, clips, textures, snap-fits or hinges cost almost nothing. Entire categories of everyday objects suddenly became worth making - not because demand changed, but because economics did. AI is doing the same to software. It doesn’t just automate tasks. It makes bespoke internal tools, edge-case workflows and “nice-to-have” automations suddenly viable. Software becomes disposable, experimental, and abundant - and that quietly reshapes organisations far more than any single AI feature ever will. 📉The cost of bespoke business process software and automation just crashed through the floor. Complexity just became "cheap". Injection moulding changed the everyday lives of most people. AI-built software will too.

I think late stage capitalism is owning a hundred devices and spending your entire life making sure none of them die before you do 🔋

I want to love @TIDAL, but both the Android and iPhone apps have a total meltdown offline, making it practically useless commuting in London, or on flights 🤨

The @ridingunicorns_ podcast is out. Not the usual @vorboss chat, in this one we get into infosec, and infrastructure in a post-Snowden world (amongst other things!) linktr.ee/ridingunicorns_

Had a lot of fun chatting about cyber security, connectivity and investment with @TheJWPringle and @hectorfbmason on their podcast. Out tomorrow!

It's astonishing how many leadership/CEO/business coaches pitch me for business every time the company has any publicity