Mark Carrigan

I was just reading a strikingly optimistic post from exactly six months ago, written as I became comfortable with half marathon distance. I wrote about how liberating it was to discover the power of pacing, the malleable quality of limits and the luxurious experience of sprinting to a finish line because you’ve got energy left […]

I just overheard someone on the street say “I’m going to Paris, not France”. It was seemingly offered as a correction to what the person with them had previously said. It was delivered in a matter of fact way that suggested it resolved a confusion. What on earth could this have meant? I could not […]

I thought this was an interesting announcement from Surrey. I certainly see the appeal of being able to publicly say you’re doing this: Rather than introducing AI as an additional skill, Surrey is undertaking a systematic redesign of every degree programme. This transformation will ensure that, as AI becomes embedded across society and the economy, […]

This is a phrase which Andrew Tindall uses in this Drum piece to describe the pricing shift already underway in language models. Most consumers are still insulated from a change which is currently directed at enterprise customers and ‘power users’ of Claude: Microsoft’s decision to wind down Claude Code licens in parts of the business is […]

HT Nik John for sending me this fascinating paper by the editors of Organisational Science. If you’re interested in AI and scholarly publishing, read this paper: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.2026.ed.v37.n3 The highlight for me was the finding about editorial outcomes: A clear pattern emerges above 30% AI use. Manuscripts crossing this threshold have desk rejection rates nearly 30 […]