How I Work
How I Work
You know those annoyingly successful people who seem to have it all figured out? Time to steal their playbook. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber gets world‑class achievers to spill their secrets - the daily strategies behind their success through to life hacks and productivity hacks they’d rather keep to themselves. We’re talking practical tips for boosting your output (including clever…Social links:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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(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…
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How I AI: The agent that Neo uses every single day
**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here: https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents** You type a research question into your AI tool, get back a perfectly serviceable answer, and still feel like something's missing. The output isn't wrong, exactly. It just didn't quite hit the mark. The culprit, mo…
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The Work Edit: Everyone is using AI to apply for jobs. Here's how to stand out.
Knowing how hiring works does not prepare you for what job hunting actually feels like right now. Today’s guest, Nicole, found that out the hard way. She has spent 30 years on the hiring side of the table. She has interviewed hundreds of candidates, read thousands of applications, and knows exactly…
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How I AI: The three agents every knowledge worker should have
**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here: https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents** You sit down to research something for work, open a few tabs, type a vague query into AI, and get back something that feels… fine. Technically an answer. Not quite useful. Meanwhile, that report you've been workin…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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