It may look like brains, and taste like cauliflower, but it is a way to make you indispensable. Jack Kelly wrote a brilliant article in Forbes last year, “What The Peter Principle, Dunning-Kruger Effect And Imposter Syndrome Look Like In The Workplace”. When I read it I suddenly understood what…

On January 13th, 1989, a Friday, my 3rd son Alan was born. He has Down Syndrome and Autism, and today is his 34th birthday. I intended to follow my dreams and travel and work in multiple countries as my career developed — sadly many countries where I worked would not…

Many users report that for many questions, ChatCPT produces plausible bullshit — sounds right but wrong — just like the average BS artist you walk away from. Professor Harry Frankfurt wrote a paper on the subject in 2005 which Professor Gary Marcus refers to in a recent Ezra Klein show…

The simple answer is most current jobs disappear — including yours. Sam Altman the CEO of Open AI has been repeating this mantra since 2016 in a New Yorker interview and most recently on the Ezra Klein show. He postulates that when smart robots “have eaten all the jobs” and…

As an Irish Protestant, I was told my father's family came from Cornwall, England, in the 1820s. There were “coastguards” based in Cork and Donegal. They preferred to sail around Ireland because travelling overland at that time was too dangerous. They sounded more like pirates to me. We live our…