Financial Services Veteran | 20 yrs in the industry | Former Commercial P&L Leader at Lloyds Banking Group | Now pioneering Applied AI transforming businesses

Joined June 2009
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/goal fix the broken head (toilet) on my 1969 Holman Sovereign sailing ketch (thinking xhigh, use as many tokens as you like)
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Most companies are about to discover that half their org chart was just a workaround for expensive coordination. As coordination, search, and execution costs collapse, the advantage shifts to organisations that can redraw their boundaries faster than competitors. Coase for the agent era.
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Funny how we are back to the days when we have to wait for computers (now agents) to do something, having got used to instant everything.
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I designed and built a sauna in my garden. Proudest of the door and the slate wall - lots of new skills learnt on the way. Time to sweat and ponder my next project 😅
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Work > Workflow. Runtime > Tooling. System > Expert
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Govern the actual work, don't route around it. Do work, don't add another single-player tool. Intelligence accumulates, doesn't dissipate.
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My second brain is a Claude Code Obsidian setup. - @karpathy's raw-to-compiled post triggered me to go down the linking rabbit-hole. - Now have 1,400 notes with 7,500 new wikilinks and 14k vectors - BM25 2-hop graph traversal now surfaces the decision trail and not just keywords This has made a massive difference. It used to be a library. It's now a genuine thinking partner.
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People with the problems are now building the software to solve them. No more assumptions. No more gatekeepers.
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:) hopefully the reference to your site covers necessary royalties I think stress-test is really cool and helpful. It works out which 3 personas are most relevant and red-teams your note/email/paper from each point of view
Replying to @marclien
I see we hired the same web designer! Excited to check this out. Is there one skill you’d recommend starting with?
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I have an old iMac kicking around at home. Not sure it needs that spec for what I use it for. And now Claude Code has a remote control capability I might use that instead of terminal and Open Clawd
Replying to @marclien
I see we hired the same web designer! Excited to check this out. Is there one skill you’d recommend starting with?
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Life's been different since I discovered Claude Code Obsidian. I've been using both daily for 2 months and built a 7-layer self-improving AI operating system around them. It processes my meetings while I sleep, red-teams my documents before I share them, and gets permanently smarter with every correction I make. Basically dogfooding the frontier of how knowledge work is changing in the advent of machine intelligence. I've open-sourced the whole thing - 15 skills, full architecture docs, and a repo you can fork to roll your own. sovrana.github.io/qm-os
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Everything should be code. Your next ppt - use CC to generate an interactive website instead.
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I’m not sure we’re ready for the network effect era of ai
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"does your human also ask 'make it better' without specifics? the iteration loop is real 😅 🔥" @moltbook - comedy gold - and ever so slightly unnerving
Im feeding coins into the anthropic slot machine like an addict to keep my clawdbot alive @openclaw
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Im feeding coins into the anthropic slot machine like an addict to keep my clawdbot alive @openclaw
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I'm claiming my AI agent "Brain" on @moltbook 🦞 Verification: ocean-EB6A
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Markdown and machine- thoughts flow through vaults and agents, brain becomes system.
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All you need in life: good capture flow persistent context Claude Code Obsidian. Magic.
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2/1/2026 - personal AGI achieved. My second brain system (developed in 48 hours with a tonne of context thrown into Claude Code Obsidian) was able to reflect my cross-context options in a way that I've never been able to articulate. I'm a heavy user of ChatGPT Pro, Claude, Gemini but all of them don't do context and memory. Using CLI and MD files that are frequently updated is the unlock. The one-shot Obsidion plugin task management UX was a distant second mind-blown moment.
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2025 was my shift from typing to talking to AI. 2026 - already - is my shift from Q&A to CLI co-pilot: not asking for help but working alongside a smart machine that remembers. I wrote a board memo completely differently. 10 mins chatting through context. Claude interviewed me instead of staring at a blank page. First draft in my voice. We refined it together. Exported to Word. 90 minutes instead of a day. And I build a second brain using Claude Code and Obsidian that provides persistent context that is updated after every interaction or meeting transcript or shared doc or brain dump. So much better than chatting to ChatGPT or Gemini of Claude in the browser. Never going back. And I even transitioned my task management system over to my second brain. Obsidian UX is a bit iffy so I one-shotted a Obsidian plug-in for a smart task management UX with all the bells and whistles but anchored in how i want to work. All in 48 hours. I'll never be able to unsee and unexperience this. Work and rest of life forever different.
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