Category: Leadership
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Moving from ad hoc AI use to systematic integration
AI in FTP processes involves multiple stakeholders using tools episodically and without clear frameworks—creating risks and missed opportunities. Organisations face a fundamental choice: systematic integration with explicit frameworks that strengthen core purposes, or reactive prohibition that drives use underground where learning can’t happen and quality can’t be assured.
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AI and judgement: Cultivating taste in an age of capability
Content creation is trivially easy now. Curation—selecting what to make—is also becoming easier as AI learns your patterns. What remains is taste: evaluative judgement about what should exist in the first place. AI can be descriptive but not evaluative. It can learn your preferences but cannot judge whether they’re worth amplifying. That’s your responsibility.
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OpenPhysio podcast: Considering the precariat
Earlier this month I finally managed to publish an episode of the OpenPhysio podcast that’s been on my to-do list for about a year. I’ve been wanting to get the journal podcast series up and running for a while but for various reasons I haven’t been able to work on it as regularly as I’d…
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Reflections on noticing the mistakes made by others
We’re predisposed to ascribe the mistakes of others to negligence, laziness, or incompetence, while the mistakes we make tend to have more benign and self-serving causes. Here are some points I try to reflect on when I see other people make “mistakes”: Start by assuming that everyone is trying to do the best work they…
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The incentives to create effective teams are all wrong
I just finished a meeting where I realised that the incentives provided for academics are all wrong (if you assume that having an effective department is a goal). If we want departments to be excellent (however you define excellence) we must accept that they can only get to that point if the staff work together…