Jon Collins

Write as you speak

It has struck me just how many posts on LinkedIn seem to be written by AI. Like this one—only it isn’t. I wrote it. Just like that. I even inserted the em-dash. It’s hard to write like AI. But not...

Bulletin 2 November 2026. Always Take The Whether With You

These are interesting, unprecedented times. Oh yeah, there’s all that AI stuff and the rest, but even more important than that — I have reached an age where I can question my life and gainful...

Running through AI-generated marshmallows

I’m all too conscious that with AI, we can now create things hugely faster, with far fewer people. I’m also watching with interest our ability to run fleets, even armies of agents on a single problem...

GLOMO Award Judges 2024

Smart Shift: (Over)sharing is caring

The Church of Latter Day Saints holds the view that we are all descended from Adam, one way or another. This belief has turned Mormons into avid genealogists, and therefore keen innovators, at the...

Music, books and the Man

In February 1983 two Parisian archaeologists, Iegor Reznikoff and Michel Dauvois, faced a conundrum. The caves of the Ariege, at the foot of the Pyrenees were already renowned for their paintings,...

Talking 'bout a revolution

The ancient city of Sravasti, nestled at the edge of the Himalayan mountains in northern India, was a favourite haunt of Nepalese-born Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha. For two decades he came to a monast...

Smart Shift: An algorithm without a cause

La Défense was built in a time of great optimism, its ring of tall towers and fountain-filled squares offering a concrete and glass symbol of 1970’s hope. In the centre of main esplanade, tourists...

Smart Shift: The information fire hydrant

Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens. Genesis 11:4, The Tower of Babel There's certainly a certain degree of uncertainty about, of that we can be quite sure.