https://harrysharman.com/blog.html Essays on strategy, behavioural science and AI. en-gb https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-two-minute-test-that-tells-you-more-than-hours-of-reading-about-ai/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-two-minute-test-that-tells-you-more-than-hours-of-reading-about-ai/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Skip the think-pieces. One task, two minutes, any AI chat tool open in front of you — here's what you'll actually learn about yourself and the technology. https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-comfort-of-the-blank-page-is-lying-to-you/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/the-comfort-of-the-blank-page-is-lying-to-you/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT The belief that starting from scratch produces better thinking is costing you hours — and behavioural science explains exactly why you keep falling for it. https://harrysharman.com/posts/tell-the-ai-what-you-want-not-what-to-avoid/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/tell-the-ai-what-you-want-not-what-to-avoid/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT One small shift in how you phrase a prompt produces dramatically better results — and the reason why reveals something interesting about how your brain works too. https://harrysharman.com/posts/what-happens-when-you-ask-ai-to-argue-against-itself/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/what-happens-when-you-ask-ai-to-argue-against-itself/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Most AI outputs are too agreeable to be useful. One workout teaches you the move that fixes that — and it changes how you think about feedback entirely. https://harrysharman.com/posts/i-built-england-fans-a-war-room-for-the-world-cup-semi-final/ https://harrysharman.com/posts/i-built-england-fans-a-war-room-for-the-world-cup-semi-final/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT England v Argentina, a World Cup semi-final, and instead of just watching it I built a second screen for it — live stats, hidden scores, and the accidental sports-data habit that started with rugby. 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.