Brian Tomlinson
Clarity. Growth. Impact.
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How to Reinvent Yourself (Stop Thinking, Start Testing)
In May 1932, a woman climbed out of a plane in a field in Northern Ireland, and a farmer (who I only assume was bedazzled) asked her how far she…
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Personal Brand Identity: Become Known Without Becoming It
In December 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle pushed Sherlock Holmes over a waterfall and killed him. He wrote to his mother that he was in the middle of the last Holmes…
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Taste Collapse: What Happens When AI Defines Good Writing
In 1902, the French administration in Hanoi finished a modern sewer system, and the rats moved in. So the city offered a bounty. One cent per rat. Unsurprisingly, collecting dead…
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Agency in the Age of AI: Why Choosing Your Game Beats Skills
Every generation tends to inherit a story about work. The question is always whether or not it still fits the world you’re working in. Our grandparents learned loyalty. Our parents…
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You Don’t Need an AI Detox. You Need an Input Diet.
I’m tired of AI too. Every day, a new model pops up, a new update, another new thing that I’m apparently supposed to learn and understand before lunchtime. If your…
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Facts Don’t Change Minds. Stories Do.
Imagine someone tells you about a psychiatric patient who walks into a shopping mall and stabs a young girl. Your stomach tightens. And somewhere underneath, without you deciding anything, your…
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Leadership Debt: How AI Is Killing the Future of Leadership
In 2015, Zappos offered its employees a strange deal. Adopt a new system with no bosses and no managers, or take a severance check and leave. Around 18% took the…
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What Astronauts Know About Fear (That Leaders Don’t)
In April 2001, Chris Hadfield was holding onto the side of the International Space Station with one hand, 250 miles above Earth, when he went blind. He was on a…
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Someone Else Wrote Your Self-Image (Take It Back)
Andre Agassi won eight Grand Slam titles playing a game he hated every single day. Not “grew tired of.” Not “had a complicated relationship with.” Literally hated. The first sentence…
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The Truth About AI Layoffs
In 2002, a baseball team (the Oakland Athletics) with almost no money beat teams with ten times the budget by noticing that everyone else was measuring the wrong thing. The…