Notes
Notes
Short commentary on the week's news, and deeper analysis where every number traces to a primary source. Ungated, always.
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Don't marry your business to one AI model
The worst environment for a business isn't strict AI regulation, or none — it's unpredictable regulation. The US is regulating frontier AI through discretionary national-security intervention (models pulled with little notice) while refusing a formal regulator; markets can price clear rules but not uncertainty, and the primary evidence (Bloom 2009; Baker-Bloom-Davis 2016; Brexit's ~11% UK investment hit) shows uncertainty alone suppresses investment. For an SME the hedge isn't picking the 'right' model but building an orchestration layer so switching models is a configuration change, not a rebuild — which also cuts cost by routing each task to the cheapest adequate model.
7 min read
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What re-keying actually costs a UK small business (and why nobody can tell you)
Bad productivity statistics have taught business owners to ignore real productivity problems. Re-keying is a perfect example: the famous numbers are mostly real figures with the labels torn off, while the trustworthy answer is the one a business measures for itself — timed, costed, and priced the way HMRC prices admin time.
25 min read