Tuesday Fortnight

Every medtech founder knows they need evidence that their product works, but many miss a more important adoption question: What changes because the product works? In this episode I walk through a simple framework I've found useful after moving from large medtech organisations into startups and smaller companies: three concentric circles of value. Circle 1 – Patient benefit Is the patient bette...

Workplace culture gets blamed for a lot, rebranded constantly, and “fixed” with another set of values on the wall. But what if culture is not what an organisation says it values, but what it rewards, tolerates, hires for, and makes easy? Culture is real - but only useful if we stop treating it like a mystical force and start looking at the behaviours, skills, and systems that actually shape how wo...

AI is about to change everything, but no one can agree on how or when. So what do you do with that? This episode breaks down where we actually are - LLMs, AGI, Yann LeCun’s argument that scaling won’t get us there - and why a lot of what looks like intelligence is just really good UI. We talk about: LLMs vs real understanding, the Claude “thinking” theatre, AI agents behaving badly, and the curren...

I trained as an audiologist, but rarely call myself one these days. In this episode, I unpack the gap between what the profession is trying to do and what it’s actually achieving. Why only a fraction of people who could benefit from hearing care ever receive it. And why new models of care are still being treated as threats rather than solutions. We talk about access, incentives, automation, and th...

AI is making cognition abundant. So what becomes scarce? In this episode, I explore the future of work, creativity and meaning - and why a Simon and Garfunkel song might matter more than any model.

Intro to Tuesday Fortnight. On work, fulfillment, and living through change.