Career Thought Leadership

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What's So Different This Time?

By Hira Fernando | September 2025 | Career Strategy I've been saying this since early 2024 — definitely since ChatGPT-4 dropped. In fact, I wrote a blog post about it (it's on my website). I watched people nod politely, then go back to their day. So when Matt Shumer — co-founder of OthersideAI and someone who actually lives inside this technology — published an article in Fortune that went viral with over 50 million views, I felt equal parts vindicated and quietly alarmed. Be

It's Already Late. But Better Late than Never: Try AI Now.

By Hira Fernando | September 2025 | Career Strategy Let's say you're a sceptic. Fair enough. Let's say you think the AI hype has been overdone, that the tools are overrated, that it's a bubble waiting to pop. Fine. I'm not here to argue with you — I'm here to tell you it doesn't matter. Even if you're right — even if this turns out to be less transformative than the most breathless headlines suggest — the cost of getting a basic handle on the technology now is low. And the c

It's Called the Exponential Function - and Humans Are Bad at it

By Hira Fernando | May 2024 | Career Strategy This is why your brain can't process what's happening with AI Let me take you back to January 2020. A respiratory illness was spreading in Wuhan. A handful of people were paying attention. The rest of the world was... not. By mid-March, the entire planet had shut down. In a matter of weeks, everything changed. The problem wasn't that people lacked information. It was that the information was growing exponentially, and human brain