https://harrysharman.com/blog.html Essays on strategy, behavioural science and AI. en-gb https://harrysharman.com/posts/why-the-ai-habit-is-built-the-way-it-is/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/why-the-ai-habit-is-built-the-way-it-is/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT A behind-the-scenes look at why The AI Habit uses 15-minute workouts and repetition over tips — and the one psychological idea that explains the whole design. https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-two-minute-test-that-shows-you-what-you-actually-think-about-ai/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-two-minute-test-that-shows-you-what-you-actually-think-about-ai/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT One small task, right now, with your own work — and it will tell you more about your relationship with AI than any article can. https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-ai-productivity-myth-that-s-keeping-you-stuck/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-ai-productivity-myth-that-s-keeping-you-stuck/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT The belief that AI saves time by doing the work faster is wrong — and understanding why it sticks is more useful than any prompt trick. https://harrysharman.com/posts/tell-the-ai-what-to-aim-at-not-what-to-avoid/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/tell-the-ai-what-to-aim-at-not-what-to-avoid/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT One prompting habit that changes how useful your AI outputs are — and the simple psychology that explains why it works. https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-biggest-barrier-to-ai-adoption-at-work-isn-t-skill-it-s-identity/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-biggest-barrier-to-ai-adoption-at-work-isn-t-skill-it-s-identity/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT The real friction in workplace AI adoption isn't technical or procedural. It's what the tool appears to threaten in people's sense of professional self. https://harrysharman.com/posts/i-accidentally-got-a-butler/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/i-accidentally-got-a-butler/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT What happens when a non-technical person sets up their own personal AI assistant — and accidentally builds a farmhouse-hunting database in the process. https://harrysharman.com/posts/i-think-i-made-the-job-pocalypse-too-simple/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/i-think-i-made-the-job-pocalypse-too-simple/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT I’ve been fairly vocal about AI and jobs. https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-zero-employee-company/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-zero-employee-company/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Over the past few months a strange idea has started popping up in corners of the AI world. https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-brains-secret-pharmacy/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-brains-secret-pharmacy/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT I’d like to try and persuade you of something. https://harrysharman.com/posts/if-ai-stopped-improving-today-would-you-still-have-a-job/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/if-ai-stopped-improving-today-would-you-still-have-a-job/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT Co-authored by Harry Sharman 🧠https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrysharman?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3AfsminiProfile%3AACoAAAL9ccBTOHIT7KkfXgfB7pY1vfFQRyxNbE & Josh... https://harrysharman.com/posts/today-i-realised-i-am-vibe-coding-my-way-to-a-robot-army/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/today-i-realised-i-am-vibe-coding-my-way-to-a-robot-army/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT For the past few weeks, I’ve been doing something that feels faintly illegal. https://harrysharman.com/posts/a-quiet-catch-up-on-where-ai-actually-is/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/a-quiet-catch-up-on-where-ai-actually-is/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT I’ve been asked a version of the same question often enough recently that it stopped feeling accidental. https://harrysharman.com/posts/were-going-to-need-brain-gyms/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/were-going-to-need-brain-gyms/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT At some point in the not-too-distant future, the idea of a brain gym will stop sounding whimsical and start sounding inevitable. https://harrysharman.com/posts/your-brain-isnt-broken-your-software-is/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/your-brain-isnt-broken-your-software-is/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT The digital world was built for rational actors. https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-moment-ai-changed-medicine-forever-just-happened/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-moment-ai-changed-medicine-forever-just-happened/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT Last week, something rather important happened in healthcare — and almost nobody outside a small group of obsessives noticed. https://harrysharman.com/posts/im-in-the-top-1-of-chatgpt-users/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/im-in-the-top-1-of-chatgpt-users/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT According to OpenAI’s own usage metrics, I landed in the top 1% of ChatGPT users by volume. https://harrysharman.com/posts/why-humans-would-rather-be-wrong-than-uncomfortable/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/why-humans-would-rather-be-wrong-than-uncomfortable/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT Most of us like to think we’re open-minded. Evidence-driven. The sort of people who change their views when the facts change. https://harrysharman.com/posts/a-love-letter-to-genai-the-tool-that-gave-me-back-myself/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/a-love-letter-to-genai-the-tool-that-gave-me-back-myself/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT I’ve been accused recently — with a certain nervous laughter — of being a pessimist about... https://harrysharman.com/posts/meet-the-godfather-of-ai-the-rebel-who-spent-40-years-building-the-thing-he-now-/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/meet-the-godfather-of-ai-the-rebel-who-spent-40-years-building-the-thing-he-now-/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT Beautiful Rebels is my ongoing series about people who bend the world out of shape — thinkers who don’t just challenge the status quo, they quietly rewire it. They’re the... https://harrysharman.com/posts/ai-x-creativity-the-directors-cut-bill-ecay-and-the-90-question/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/ai-x-creativity-the-directors-cut-bill-ecay-and-the-90-question/ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMT When a creative director teaches AI to think like him, who’s really doing the creating? https://harrysharman.com/posts/who-do-you-lie-to-more-humans-or-ai/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/who-do-you-lie-to-more-humans-or-ai/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMT Before we start, a quick gut check: https://harrysharman.com/posts/creativity-x-ai-the-last-human-superpower-is-the-tickle/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/creativity-x-ai-the-last-human-superpower-is-the-tickle/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMT If comedy runs on surprise and AI runs on probability, then the final frontier isn’t intelligence. It’s laughter. https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-end-of-the-world-over-aperitivo/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-end-of-the-world-over-aperitivo/ Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMT A letter from Sicily — and an apology in advance. https://harrysharman.com/posts/futurism-vs-fatherhood-building-a-childhood-for-a-future-that-doesnt-exist/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/futurism-vs-fatherhood-building-a-childhood-for-a-future-that-doesnt-exist/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:00:00 GMT Lately I’ve become a little obsessed with the future that AI is dragging toward us. I even wrote a piece arguing that it’ll take most knowledge-work jobs within a... https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-great-corporate-horoscope-pyramid-scheme/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-great-corporate-horoscope-pyramid-scheme/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:00:00 GMT How billion-dollar businesses built their people strategy on pop psychology and bondage metaphors. https://harrysharman.com/posts/creativity-x-ai-ed-christie-and-the-black-t-shirt-buddy/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/creativity-x-ai-ed-christie-and-the-black-t-shirt-buddy/ Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT Ed Christie has spent decades training massive companies, like Google, to be more inventive and creative. He teaches humans how to stop relying on tired habits and start making... https://harrysharman.com/posts/ai-x-creativity-stephan-ledain-and-the-probability-of-wonder/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/ai-x-creativity-stephan-ledain-and-the-probability-of-wonder/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT Episode One of the Interview Series on AI x Creativity https://harrysharman.com/posts/live-forever-inc-dictators-and-immortality/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/live-forever-inc-dictators-and-immortality/ Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT In 1940, Charlie Chaplin broke his silence. https://harrysharman.com/posts/99-of-us-wont-have-a-job-in-10-years/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/99-of-us-wont-have-a-job-in-10-years/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT I’ve managed to make myself redundant. https://harrysharman.com/posts/ai-succeeds-at-the-speed-of-behaviour-change/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/ai-succeeds-at-the-speed-of-behaviour-change/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT I’ll start with the confession: I am a believer. Not cautious, hedge-your-bets believer. A full-throated, “buy another round and I’ll tell you the future” kind of believer.