Behind the book deal: How a book goes from pitch to print, with Penguin Random House's Izzy Yates

** Grab tickets for The Energy Game Melbourne launch (29 July, 6:30pm) here and pre-order The Energy Game book here.**  Writing a book is hard. But getting a publisher to say yes to your book? That is an entirely different challenge, and one that most aspiring authors know almost nothing about.  …

How I AI: Which AI model should I use for which task?

If you've ever stared at a model picker and wondered whether to click Flash, Sonnet, Opus, Instant, or Think Deeper, you are not alone. These naming conventions are genuinely confusing, and most people just pick something and hope it works. The stakes are higher than they might seem, though. Token …

The two AI mistakes hurting your team's productivity, with Dom Price

We're using AI more than ever. And yet, according to research from Glean's Work AI Institute, only 10% of Australians say AI is significantly improving organisational performance.  The truth is that most organisations have done what Dom Price calls the "Woodstock theory" of AI adoption: build it a…

The early warning signs of burnout you're probably ignoring (feat. my new book The Energy Game)

** Grab tickets for The Energy Game Melbourne launch (29 July, 6:30pm) here and pre-order The Energy Game book here.**    You have the calendar colour-coded. You time block. You deep work. You have iterated on your to-do list more times than you can count. And yet somehow, you are still exhausted…

Always chasing the next achievement? Jennifer Breheny Wallace has a better way to measure your life

There is a question most of us skip past entirely in our daily lives: do I actually matter? Not "am I useful?" or "am I successful?" but do I matter, as a person, independent of what I produce or achieve?  It sounds simple. But the research suggests we are terrible at actually living like the answ…

Quick Win: The creative secret behind Exploding Kittens’ thousand-idea design retreats

What happens when a team generates a thousand ideas - and kills most of them within minutes?  In this Quick Win, I speak with Exploding Kittens co-creator Elan Lee about how he and his team turn chaos into creativity during their quarterly design retreats. Over three intense days, they generate, t…

The Work Edit: Struggling to say no? The method I use that makes every decision easier

In a portfolio career, requests have a funny way of multiplying. A speaking gig here, a board invite there, a coffee catch-up that sounds valuable but drains you for days. The answer to all of them is technically "yes" right up until the moment it isn't.  Katie is 18 months into consulting and a p…

How I AI: 8 tasks you should never do manually again

**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here: https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents**  You have access to AI. You probably use it a fair bit. And yet there's a good chance you're still manually scrubbing through meeting transcripts, tabbing between LinkedIn and Google News before every sales call, a…

What watching 20,000 auditions teaches you about getting attention, with Big Brother and The X Factor creator Maz Farrelly

Most professionals are terrible at talking about themselves. Not because they lack substance, but because no one ever taught them that being interesting is a skill, and that skill can be learned.  Maz Farrelly has spent decades on the other side of that problem. As the executive producer behind Bi…

(BONUS) The psychology of the pitch: what TV producers know that salespeople don't, with Maz Farrelly

We put someone on the moon in 1969. We didn't put wheels on suitcases until 1972. The problem was: Nobody had stopped to notice the problem existed in the first place.  That gap - between the problems people will tell you about, the ones they'll only admit after a drink, and the ones they don't ev…