Learn to barrel the AI wave.
In whatever organisation, or phase of life, you are in.
Ask your own AI: in my organisation, who already uses AI well without making slop, who connects across our silos, and who has a pain nobody has solved? Then ask it how you would find out within an hour.
- Release dates: each lab’s own announcements, checked 25 October 2026.
- Pew Research Center, July 2025: links clicked in 8% of visits with an AI summary, 15% without.
- Harvard Business Review, September 2025: 41% of workers have encountered AI workslop, nearly two hours of rework each time.
- Fortune, September 2025, reporting the BetterUp Labs and Stanford Social Media Lab study: workslop costs about $186 a month per worker, over $9 million a year for an organisation of 10,000.
- Microsoft Work Trend Index, May 2024: 52% of people using AI at work were reluctant to admit it for their most important tasks.
- Surfer Today: the barrel, the tube, the pit, the green room, and the ways of saying you got inside one.
- The wave’s timing and shape are a reading, not a measure. The hour, the day, the week and the ten days are proposed.