A weekly note from someone who didn't want a blog.

For years, the advice was the same: every speaker needs a blog. I didn't want one. What I have instead is something I post on LinkedIn every week — a video and a long-form note about what I'm actually seeing in AI adoption work. This is where that archive lives.

The reason I resisted writing a blog wasn't that I didn't have anything to say. It was that most speaker blogs read like the speaker's drafts of their next talk — polished, abstract, and weirdly disconnected from the work the audience is actually doing. The blog became the brand, and the brand became more careful than the speaker would be in person.

I'd rather write the way I actually talk to teams. So that's what this is.

What you'll find here

One post a week. They first appear as a video and long-form post on LinkedIn — that's the working channel, where the conversation happens in real time. A few days later they land here, mostly so the archive doesn't live entirely on a platform I don't own.

The recurring topics, in rough proportion:

• What teams are actually asking in AI workshops this month — and what those questions tell you about where adoption really is.
• Failure modes worth naming. The Samsung leak, the law firm with the fabricated citations, the marketing team that quietly turned their brand voice into stock prose.
• Operational lessons from running AI policy work with leadership teams. What the worksheet didn't tell you. What the third meeting always surfaces.
• The intergenerational dynamics of AI adoption — because they're real, they matter, and most adoption plans pretend they don't.
• Occasionally: the meta-question of how a speaker, advisor, or trainer should be using AI on their own work. (Yes. With limits. Slowly enough that the work still has my judgment in it.)

What you won't find here

No prediction posts. No "five trends that will define AI in 2027." No takes on the latest model release within 48 hours of the press cycle. There are people who do that well — I am not one of them, and the world doesn't need another voice in that lane.

The questions I find most worth writing about are the ones a leadership team is asking the third time someone has used ChatGPT badly, not the questions Twitter is asking the morning after a launch.

Why this lives on the site, not on Substack

I considered Substack. The reason I didn't go that way is the same reason I keep recommending against it to the leaders I work with: when your writing lives somewhere else, the platform owns the relationship with your readers. For a speaker, the people who book me are the people searching my name on a Wednesday afternoon. I'd rather those searches land on a page next to my speaking topics and contact form than on a subscriber wall.

There will be an email subscription option here eventually. It will not require an account, a paywall, or a platform. It will just be a way to get a note in your inbox once a week.

One last thing

If you've come from a talk, thank you. If you've come from a search, welcome. If you've come because someone forwarded you this and said "you'd like her" — that's the highest compliment a speaker can get, and I'll try to keep deserving it.

See you next week.