AI Essentials
// ai essentials · aug 2, 2026
AI Skills for Teams
Why your team gets five different answers from the same AI If you manage a team that has started using AI, you have probably noticed something odd. Everyone has access to the same tool. Everyone is doing broadly the same job with it. And the output varies wildly depending on who typed the request. One […]
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// ai essentials · jul 19, 2026
Everyone's calling it brain rot. (It's not)
Oxford University Press named "brain rot" its Word of the Year in late 2024 with more than 37,000 people voting. Usage of "brain rot" had risen 230% in twelve months. The definition Oxford gave was "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now […]
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// ai essentials · jul 16, 2026
Where Does It Run?
A question we've all answered before Every manager has answered this question already, just not about AI. When you bring in a contractor, you decide: do they work on our site or theirs? With our equipment or theirs? Nobody leaves that to chance, because the answer settles who is responsible for what, what the contractor […]
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// ai essentials · jul 16, 2026
Not All Cloud AI Is the Same: The Three Tiers of AI Privacy
The question that stalls every AI rollout Somewhere in every workshop, someone asks whether it is safe to put their data into AI. It is the right worry and the wrong question, because "AI" is not one place. The convenience of a cloud tool and the strictness of GDPR only feel like opposites while you […]
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// ai essentials · jul 14, 2026
The Verification Dial: A Simple Rule for When to Check AI's Work
The question I hear in every workshop "If I have to check everything the AI produces, where's the saving?" It's a fair question. The Verification Tax - the time you spend checking AI output is a tax on every hour it saves you. And if you're checking every word of everything, forever, the tax rate […]
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// ai essentials · jul 14, 2026
Are You Using AI, Directing It, or Running It?
The bottom of the ladder On a training call last week, a woman told me she was at the bottom. We'd spent most of an hour on her situation. Her company runs on Microsoft, her IT department keeps things sensibly locked down, and she wanted something modest: a way to have the tender notification emails […]
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