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This is where the journey landed. Not a neat summary — an honest one. And the single question that changed how I think about AI leadership.

There's a specific moment when AI stops being something you use and becomes something you think through. This is what that shift actually looks like.

The hallucinations, the confident errors, the moments where AI led me somewhere wrong — and why I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to work with it.

There's a particular discomfort in realising that the gap you've been describing to audiences exists in your own life. This is that post.

Watching my kids grow up alongside AI has forced me to reconsider what capability, intelligence, and learning actually mean — and where my own assumptions are out of date.

I used AI to research buying a 997.2. What I found wasn't a car recommendation — it was a mirror held up to my own decision-making patterns.

Blood tests, cortisol, HYROX training load, chronic fatigue — I fed it all to AI. What came back reframed how I was thinking about the whole thing.

I gave AI three months of my spending data and asked it to be honest. The patterns it found were the ones I'd been successfully avoiding.

After my HYROX wake-up call, I decided to audit every part of my life using AI as the lens. What I found wasn't what I expected.

I've spent years telling organisations how to think about AI. I was early to ChatGPT, fluent in the vocabulary, and confident in my positioning. I was also wrong — not about AI's potential, but about how much of my own potential I was leaving on the table. This is the story of the question that changed everything.