Universities became more managed, for good reason, but along the way something of shared endeavour was lost. We need academic governance that can help shape our institutions, with all the responsibilities that entails. @profserious proposes profserious.substack.com/p/r…

On Remembering and Forgetting. How do we choose what to remember? There is the person we knew, and the years of losing them. We need room for both. This is about chocolate buttons, and love returned. @profserious reflects profserious.substack.com/p/o…

Preparing to be Wrong ... on the conditions for effective action. Principles drawn from the work of John Boyd by @profserious . Systems, management and leadership. profserious.substack.com/p/p…

Regulating What We Do Not Understand: rules founded on speculative harms can entrench assumptions, protect incumbents and obstruct the experimentation needed to understand risk. @profserious considers ... profserious.substack.com/p/r…

Becoming Computer Science ... how a discipline grew up ... a perspective from @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/b…

How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You ... Are you worried that Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will turn you into a paperclip? @profserious offers an alternative profserious.substack.com/p/h…

I am not good at letting go. Perhaps the trick is to care about things, whilst accepting that neither they nor our relative success in pursuing them can be made permanent. @profserious contemplates ... profserious.substack.com/p/t…

Leaders of public and third-sector organisations face not only their own organisational politics, but disputes about ideology, authority, and power. This is not comfortable territory for many leaders. @profserious considers … profserious.substack.com/p/l…

10 lessons from my time at Imperial College: on science and engineering, hard work, criticism, laughter … and software … @profserious … profserious.substack.com/p/w…

Building the AI-enabled enterprise is not primarily a technology problem ... it is a strategy, architecture and organisational design problem. Here is the @profserious Serious Playbook for Enterprise AI profserious.substack.com/p/a… #AI

Summer Break for @profserious. Your usual articles will resume next week. Just to keep you amused, here are 5 (somewhat unusual) books from my recent reading that you might enjoy on the beach ... kick back, relax profserious.substack.com/p/p…

Summer Break for @profserious. Your usual articles will resume next week. Just to keep you amused, here are 5 (somewhat unusual) books from my recent reading that you might enjoy on the beach ... kick back, relax profserious.substack.com/p/p…

A Serious Strategy ... choosing to compete in AI. A good UK AI strategy is about comparative advantage. It is not about trying to outspend the US or out-scale China. @profserious considers profserious.substack.com/p/a…

On Technical Education ... hard hat and graduation cap. Technical education merits greater recognition. But it is not the opposite of academic education. @profserious considers profserious.substack.com/p/o…

Whither the Arts and Humanities? The arts and humanities do not have a value problem. But do they have an adaptation problem? @profserious considers profserious.substack.com/p/w…