2026 Week 21

I’ve been asked to talk about AI more often than I’d like. I usually like to speak from a place of personal experience. Being able to relate a challenge to my own experience in a similar context is one of the things that I feel I do really well. But AI is too new, the restrictions on use of AI in a work context are a barrier, and personal reactions to AI are often raw and often impassioned. I’m AI curious but not AI experienced. I don’t think this craze has been around long enough for the real consequences to be felt, let alone for lessons to have been learned. Being asked to speak about it has been a real personal challenge. My approach has been to look for threads of conversation, and see which resonate and then to try and build the conversation from there. My first attempt fell flat and quickly became a ‘Bill monologue’. I have work to do.