September 2026

When to say no

One of my favorite tv moments was from Richard Branson’s short-lived “Rebel Billionaire”, where he auditioned candidates to take over the presidency of the Virgin Group business. Given his reputation as a thrill-seeker, it was no wonder that many challenges involved pushing physical limits and taking risks. But one challenge took a different approach: It’s…more

Maybe attention IS really all you need?

The famous paper that kickstarted the LLM revolution found that paying simultaneous attention to everything around a word helps computers understand its meaning far better than other approaches. Where its attention was really mattered. However, while computers thrive at processing lots of things simultaneously, we humans are notoriously bad at it. Our brains immediately throw…more