Tuesday Fortnight

Workplace culture gets blamed for a lot, rebranded constantly, and “fixed” with another set of values on the wall. But what if culture is not what an organisation says it values, but what it rewards, tolerates, hires for, and makes easy? Culture is real - but only useful if we stop treating it like a mystical force and start looking at the behaviours, skills, and systems that actually shape how work gets done. And as AI changes the scale of human collaboration, what comes next?

AI is about to change everything, but no one can agree on how or when.So what do you do with that?This episode breaks down where we actually are - LLMs, AGI, Yann LeCun’s argument that scaling won’t get us there - and why a lot of what looks like intelligence is just really good UI.We talk about:LLMs vs real understanding,the Claude “thinking” theatre,AI agents behaving badly,and the current AI bubble.But more importantly:How to live in the meantime.Kids, social media, incentives, governance, meaning - and why the biggest risk isn’t AI becoming human, but humans becoming passive.

I trained as an audiologist, but rarely call myself one these days. In this episode, I unpack the gap between what the profession is trying to do and what it’s actually achieving. Why only a fraction of people who could benefit from hearing care ever receive it. And why new models of care are still being treated as threats rather than solutions.We talk about access, incentives, automation, and the role of consumer technology, and what parts of audiology are genuinely irreplaceable (if any).This is a love letter to hearing science and a reflection on where audiology needs to change.

AI is making cognition abundant.So what becomes scarce?In this episode, I explore the future of work, creativity and meaning - and why a Simon and Garfunkel song might matter more than any model.

Intro to Tuesday Fortnight. On work, fulfillment, and living through change.