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 done in a while. We talk about my burnout year, the tiny experiments that brought me back, AI and where I think it's headed, and the uncomfortable ques…

How I AI: How to build a knowledge agent that answers every 101 question - so you don't have to

**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here: https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents**  There's a question you've answered a hundred times before. You know the one. Someone pings you, you stop what you're doing, dig through a document or two, and type out the same response you've typed a dozen times …

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 six. One comment from a colleague you personally recruited into the thread.  Meanwhile, your feed has started to look like it was written by the sa…

(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 than it looks.  In this bonus episode, I get to turn the tables. Jessi Hempel (host of the podcast Hello Monday and senior editor-at-large at LinkedIn)…

How I AI: Agents explained in 10 minutes (no jargon, no hype)

**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here: https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents**  The word "agents" is everywhere right now. It shows up in product updates, LinkedIn posts, and conversations at work, and yet for a lot of people, it still doesn't quite click. What actually is an agent? Is it the…

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 on time, they're already there. You're just not seeing them.  Laura has tracked her own time for 11 years. She's run large-scale time-tracking stud…

How I AI: Why most AI rollouts fail (and how to make sure yours doesn't)

You've bought the licenses. You've made the announcement. And a few months later, you're staring at a workforce either ignoring the tools entirely or churning out AI-generated fluff that nobody's reading. The ROI? Nowhere to be found.  The problem isn't AI. It's how organisations are rolling it ou…

Are you an initiator or a responder? Tom Rath on thriving in the age of AI

What if the thing you spend the most time on at work won't matter at all when you're gone?  It's a confronting question, but it's the kind Tom Rath lives with deliberately. He walks past a 10,000-headstone cemetery near his home in Washington DC and has never once seen a grave mention social media…

How I AI: What AI capability really looks like in high-performing teams

Sign up for Inventium’s AI Agent Bootcamp virtual or in-person. Your organisation hit its AI adoption target. Eighty percent of staff have a licence, onboarding is done, and the usage dashboard looks great. So why does the work feel the same, or worse? Hitting an adoption target and actually getti…

This is what AI is actually doing to your brain, with Gabriella Rosen Kellerman

The more AI tools you use, the more productive you get. Right?  Not exactly. Boston Consulting Group leader Gabriella Rosen Kellerman studied what actually happens to people who are using AI intensively at work, and what she found is that beyond a certain point, something breaks. Not burnout. Some…