Writing
Short pieces, written after the meeting.
Everything here comes out of real board rooms and real build decisions. No predictions, no takes on last week's model release.
- 19 August 20264 min readGovernance is a product decision, not a paperwork exerciseEvery board I sit on wants an AI policy. Almost none of them need one yet. What they need is to know who is allowed to ship what, and who carries it when it goes wrong.
- 2 July 20266 min readWhat ISO 42001 actually asks of youStripped of the annexes, the standard is asking one question in nine different ways: can you show me how this decision was made?
- 14 May 20263 min readThe one AI question every board should ask this quarterNot 'what is our AI strategy'. Ask instead: which decisions in this business are already being made by a model, and who signed them off?
- 6 March 20265 min readHiring your first AI leadScaleups hire a researcher when they needed an operator. The role you are recruiting for is judgement under ambiguity, not a publication record.
- 20 November 20253 min readAdvice from Simon SinekI met Simon in 2012, two years after the TED talk. What stayed with me was not the why, but what he said about patience.
The Governance Note
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