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How I Work
You know those annoyingly successful people who seem to have it all figured out? Time to steal their playbook. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber gets world‑class achievers to spill their secrets - the daily strategies behind their success through to life hacks and productivity h...
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How I AI: 3 signs it's time to start a new chat thread
You've put in the work on your prompts. You know how to give AI the right context, set the right tone, ask the right questions. But then, mid-conversa...
Why planning 60% of your day is the most productive thing you can do, with Cyril Peupion
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes not from working hard, but from never quite feeling like you've worked on the right things. You finis...
Quick Win: The million-dollar moment that tested Catriona Wallace’s integrity
When Dr Catriona Wallace was offered a million dollars to take out her nose ring, she didn’t hesitate. Her response wasn’t defiance - it was clarity. ...
The Work Edit: When gratitude becomes entitlement, and how to reset it
You give your team something rare. A four-day week. Flexible hours. Real breathing room. And for a while, it works beautifully. Then, gradually, the g...
Quick Win: How to rebuild trust at work when its broken
Trust doesn’t rebuild with one big apology. It grows back quietly - through small, consistent moments that prove you mean what you say.
In this...
The two numbers that predict whether you'll actually hit your goal, with Jia Jiang
Every productivity guru will tell you the same thing: set realistic goals, or you're setting yourself up to fail. Jia Jiang did the opposite. He told...
Quick Win: The hidden reason AI isn’t delivering value at work, according to Dom Price
AI might be saving you time, but if you don’t know what to do with that time, it’s not worth much. In this Quick Win, I’m joined by Dom Price, who spe...
The Work Edit: How to scale a consulting business without growing the team
Hiring feels like the obvious next move when a business starts doing well. More people, more capacity, more revenue. The logic is so clean it barely n...
How I AI: The prompting mistake almost everyone makes
How much of your week goes into fixing what AI just handed you? Not writing from scratch, just cleaning up, correcting, and nudging a draft that looke...
The 3 questions that reveal whether someone is actually motivated, with Dr Justin Coulson
Every manager and every parent has met the same wall. Someone who won't engage, won't budge, won't do the thing, no matter how hard you push or how mu...
How I AI: Do these 2 things if you're worried about AI and the environment
There is a quiet guilt a lot of people carry every time they open ChatGPT. Somewhere between the headlines about data centres and the vague sense that...
Are you an insecure overachiever? Oliver Burkeman on why success never feels like enough
There's a particular kind of tightness that creeps in when the world feels unpredictable. We tidy the to-do list, tighten the routine, optimise one mo...
How I AI: What you should never paste into AI
Before you paste that customer list, that blood test result or that contract into your favourite AI tool, it's worth pausing for a second. Whatever yo...
Part 2: The loneliness of leadership no one warned you about, with Christian O'Connell
There is a version of leadership that looks effortless from the outside. The one where the leader always has the answers, always holds the vision, alw...
How I AI: Agents, Projects, and Skills (oh my!): A no-fluff guide on when to use each one
The AI world has has done a spectacularly bad job of naming things. Agents, GPTs, gems, notebooks, projects, skills - you'll find a completely differe...
Part 1: Christian O'Connell on the habit that means he never runs out of stories
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What if the stories you're m...
How I AI: The three questions to ask before picking an AI platform
You see another article. "This platform just changed everything." And suddenly, the AI platform you've been using for months feels completely inadequa...
How to get your energy back without overhauling your life
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If you're someone who keeps...
How I AI: Cowork explained in 10 Minutes
You've probably seen Cowork mentioned inside Claude, or perhaps you clocked the headlines when Microsoft folded it into Copilot a couple of weeks ago....
The warning signs of burnout I missed for nearly an entire year
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What does it take to...
How I AI: What is tokenomics, and why should you care
If your organisation has moved its AI licenses onto a per-use plan, every single chat thread your team sends is now adding to a bill. Some companies a...
Behind the book deal: How a book goes from pitch to print, with Penguin Random House's Izzy Yates
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Writing a book is hard....
How I AI: Which AI model should I use for which task?
If you've ever stared at a model picker and wondered whether to click Flash, Sonnet, Opus, Instant, or Think Deeper, you are not alone. These naming c...
The two AI mistakes hurting your team's productivity, with Dom Price
We're using AI more than ever. And yet, according to research from Glean's Work AI Institute, only 10% of Australians say AI is significantly improvin...
The early warning signs of burnout you're probably ignoring (feat. my new book The Energy Game)
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You have the cal...
Always chasing the next achievement? Jennifer Breheny Wallace has a better way to measure your life
There is a question most of us skip past entirely in our daily lives: do I actually matter? Not "am I useful?" or "am I successful?" but do I matter,...
Quick Win: The creative secret behind Exploding Kittens’ thousand-idea design retreats
What happens when a team generates a thousand ideas - and kills most of them within minutes?
In this Quick Win, I speak with Exploding Kittens...
The Work Edit: Struggling to say no? The method I use that makes every decision easier
In a portfolio career, requests have a funny way of multiplying. A speaking gig here, a board invite there, a coffee catch-up that sounds valuable but...
How I AI: 8 tasks you should never do manually again
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You have access to AI. You probably use it a fair bit. And...
What watching 20,000 auditions teaches you about getting attention, with Big Brother and The X Factor creator Maz Farrelly
Most professionals are terrible at talking about themselves. Not because they lack substance, but because no one ever taught them that being interesti...
(BONUS) The psychology of the pitch: what TV producers know that salespeople don't, with Maz Farrelly
We put someone on the moon in 1969. We didn't put wheels on suitcases until 1972. The problem was: Nobody had stopped to notice the problem existed in...
How I AI: The agent that Neo uses every single day
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You type a research question into your AI tool, get back a...
The Work Edit: Everyone is using AI to apply for jobs. Here's how to stand out.
Knowing how hiring works does not prepare you for what job hunting actually feels like right now. Today’s guest, Nicole, found that out the hard way....
How I AI: The three agents every knowledge worker should have
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You sit down to research something for work, open a few tab...
What I told Lael Stone about my worst year
**This week I'm sharing a crossover episode from the Humans, being. podcast with the wonderful Lael Stone. It's one of the more personal chats I've do...
How I AI: How to Build a Knowledge Agent That Answers Every 101 Question - So You Don't Have To
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There's a question you've answered a hundred times before....
I asked a LinkedIn insider how to actually stand out on LinkedIn in 2026
There's a moment a lot of professionals know well. You put real thought into a LinkedIn post, hit publish, and watch the likes trickle in. Five. Maybe...
(BONUS) Behind the mic: the art of the interview, with Jessi Hempel
There are interviews, and then there are conversations. The best podcast hosts know the difference, and the gap between the two is harder to close tha...
How I AI: Agents Explained in 10 Minutes (No Jargon, No Hype)
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The word "agents" is everywhere right now. It shows up in p...
Why you feel busy all the time (even when you’re not), with Laura Vanderkam
What would you do with four extra hours a day? Probably say you don't have them. But according to Laura Vanderkam, one of the world's leading thinkers...