coaching
Earlier this year I wrote about using NotebookLM as a personal leadership coach, drawing on my own learning blog posts as the source material. That proved useful, but a it was ad-hoc, not a habit. Over the past few months I've built something more deliberate: a weekly
Artificial Intelligence
In my previous post on vibe coding in Defence, I built a simple web app that scrapes GOV.UK pages and plots military range activity on a map. That experiment showed that someone without a software development background could use AI coding tools to build something real and useful. But
Artificial Intelligence
As part of my technical learning I decided to conduct an experiment. Could I - not a software developer - use AI coding tools to build a working, public-facing web service from scratch, using real UK MOD data? And if so, what might that mean for Defence? The result is here:
Artificial Intelligence
Planning my team's activities for the coming year has required us to do some thinking about the near-term activities we can do, to help ensure that UK Defence can exploit AI at scale and pace. Â While conversations around the cutting-edge of AI tend to focus on
Artificial Intelligence
In a series of blog posts I'll be talking through my academic research into AI in large organisations - undertaken as part of my AI MSc, which I completed in 2025. In this first post I'll simply summarise my research and the main conclusions. Later, I'
Learning
What it was Self-guided experimentation, on how I could use AI to augment my personal development, by turning my existing learning blog posts into a personal leadership coach. Originally (in late 2023) I used the OpenAI GPT3.5 API with embeddings, and a custom system prompt, to generate a
Learning
What it was: The first Defence digital masterclass, with various speakers on digital themes, hosted at Barclays Rise, Shoreditch, on 4 May 2018 What I learned: Artificial Intelligence: * The AlphaZero AI algorithm learns from blank slate, does not just replay earlier human learning * Human beings already have symbiotic relationships with
Learning
What it was: CIPR written briefing studied as part of Continuous Professional Development, 27 February 2018: Source: https://www.ibe.org.uk/userassets/briefings/ibe_briefing_58_business_ethics_and_artificial_intelligence.pdf What I learned: AI is relevant to Business Ethics - for example, how do you ensure your organisation’
Learning
What it was: Talks by subject matter experts on AI hosted by the Civil Service Alumni, at the Royal College of Defence Studies, London on 18 December 2017 What I learned: AI is permeating business: * No single agreed definition of "AI" * 'Narrow' AI does specific tasks,