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Thoughts on AI, automation, and navigating the restructuring of professional work.

6 posts

Learning to Learn Again

· 12 min

My education taught me to learn. The knowledge it gave me is already obsolete. If AI handles the output, the question isn't what you know—it's whether you know how to steer the machine that knows everything.

Your First AI Week

· 10 min

The big firms have already made their bet. Here's a practical workflow to make yours — one hour a day, go hard, and stop being polite to the machines.

The Fee Is Falling

· 11 min

KPMG just demanded a 14% fee cut from its own auditor—citing AI. A law firm replaced a departing associate with AI tools and saw costs drop 27%. The economics of professional services are being rewritten in real time.

When Your Auditee Doesn't Need You Anymore

· 9 min

The SaaSpocalypse wasn't about one product. It was the market recognizing that middlemen get eliminated when knowledge becomes abundant. Here's what that means for audit—and every knowledge profession.

The AI Orchestrator in Internal Audit

· 12 min

The market just woke up to what I discovered last week: AI can automate knowledge work now. Here's what that looks like on the ground—and why it's just prompts and workflow.

Surviving the Oh-Fuck Moment

· 5 min

I built an AI system that can do a significant portion of my audit job. In a week. With zero coding knowledge. This is what that satisfying, terrifying realisation felt like.