Why Insight Never Changed Anything
For roughly twenty years this entire field taught one idea. If you could just see the pattern, name the belief and understand where it came from, the pattern would loosen its grip. It was a good idea. It replaced something worse, which was the assumption that people simply needed to try harder. It gave a […]
Regulation Keeps You Afloat. It Does Not Fix the Hole
One of the most respected voices in nervous system work published something this summer that deserved considerably more attention than it received. She wrote that healing does not happen in 21 days, or 12 weeks, or even in a year, and that it is a lifelong undertaking. I want to be careful here, because she […]
What Changed and Why
There is a whole category of app now that will read your messages and hand you back a number. An interest score, telling you how much the other person really cares. A ghost risk rating. An effort balance across the last month, showing who has been putting more in. Hot and cold tracking. Several of […]
The Confidence Gap: What 9 of 10 HR Leaders Believe and What They Can Actually Show
Three hundred senior HR professionals were asked this summer whether they could evidence taking all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment, if somebody challenged them today. Ninety-one per cent said they could. When the same survey looked at what was actually in place, around half could point to a clear reporting process and about a […]
You Cannot Clone What Was Never Written Down
The market for AI tools aimed at coaches and practitioners has quietly agreed on one thing, and almost nobody selling into it has said it out loud. The input is always what you have already produced. Upload your books. Connect the podcast back catalogue. Point it at your courses, your posts, your recorded sessions, your […]
The Discernment Curve… Why the AI Backlash Is a Stage, Not a Verdict
We seem to have entered the great AI backlash. Two years ago the dominant conversation was that AI was amazing” A miracle! It will change everything! Just look what this can do. The mood now is a little different. AI uses too much water. AI takes jobs. AI destroys creativity. AI produces slop. AI stops […]
Ask It Again
Is AI conscious? You have probably seen the screenshots by now. Somebody is chatting to one of the big AI assistants, and the thing on the other side…
The Method That Can Only Say Keep Trying
Why does inner work so often feel like enormous effort for very little movement?
Go and Find the Material You Control
If you have built any part of your business on an AI tool, what happens when the company behind it changes the rules? They do change them.
Everyone Is Selling You a Fence
There is a whole small industry now selling AI tools to coaches, consultants, therapists and authors.