# mhsutton.me — Full Content > Complete text of recent articles from mhsutton.me. --- ## Wake Up: AI Is Coming For Your Job, And No One's Ready Published: March 17, 2026 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/ai-labor-crisis-wake-up-call Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/27be4297-a960-4848-8d30-57c086cebefa AI is here, and it's coming for your job sooner than you think. Stop sleepwalking through the biggest labor crisis humanity has ever faced and prepare for the inevitable economic upheaval. --- ## Needles, Noise and Signals. Published: January 24, 2025 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/needles-noise-and-signals Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/d2888f28-22da-4121-891f-90135a85fdc3 When I was a kid, my Mum always said 'learn to cook, people always need to eat'. This is wisdom. What is also wisdom is that, just as people need to eat, they also like to have sex. So that is a... --- ## The Leviathan and the Whale: How Blocs Are Our Last, Best (and Probably Failing) Hope Against Corporate Overlords Published: January 18, 2025 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/the-leviathan-and-the-whale-how-blocs-are-our-last-best-and-probably-failing-hope-against-corporate-overlords Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/69df607b-e021-46f8-bd96-69006a3173be Forget the squabbling nations; the real power play is between the 'blocs' – those lumbering political cliques – and the 'whales' – the mega-corporations that treat us like digital plankton. We’re being squeezed, folks. Either you’re in a gang (a bloc), or you're lunch (for a whale). The problem? Blocs are bureaucratic dinosaurs, and whales are fast, ruthless, and largely unaccountable. So, yeah, good luck with that whole freedom thing. --- ## I’m going for another walk. Published: September 2, 2022 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/im-going-for-another-walk Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/d312aaf6-0cf6-4052-b5a8-6705f6e5eefa As you might know - I like to walk. So on the 10th of September I’ll be heading to Santander in beautiful Cantabria, Spain to complete the walk I started in June 2016.  The Camino Del Norte st... --- ## On Suicide. Published: May 2, 2022 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/on-suicide Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/2c414b2c-e18f-40f7-a2d1-4984accb7ec8 Might helping people who consider suicide, to feel less trapped and more in control, be helpful to managing suicidal thoughts? --- ## Say your wishes out loud. Published: January 1, 2021 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/say-your-wishes-out-loud Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/f5a79fce-54ad-46ee-b924-0a86bcea0fda In Spain, we call New Year's Eve night - 'noche vieja', and as the night ebbs away, leaving seconds left of the year that was - you are meant to 'quickly' eat a grape for every second of the last 12 s... --- ## There is no 'We the people' Published: May 17, 2020 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/there-is-no-we-the-people Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/aac18569-5b14-42dd-879d-f5b9639aa400 There is a time between waking and rising. I find that time to be particularly full of insights and reflections. Today - I have been pondering this 'we, the people' concept that is often used to ju... --- ## Mike's theory of arcs and angles Published: May 3, 2020 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/mikes-theory-of-arcs-and-angles Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/cdf01551-df6b-4c19-b5ba-4e143112b21b One goal, which path would you take? Imagine you had a goal - perhaps to lose weight or to learn a skill, or even to build some capacity/capability as a person, team, company or country. Lets c... --- ## I have people Published: September 13, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/i-have-people Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/05b041a1-3ea1-4634-b43d-779cd4a0d3c3 I have people who instantly make me smile. Others who, as the interactions proceed, get me really irritated. I have people who help me slow down and think deeply, questioning with respect and le... --- ## I'm loving: PomodoneApp Published: August 11, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/im-loving-pomodoneapp Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/9ad95dd2-b74c-40a6-91a5-31d4d612aea2 I'm terrible at focusing and single-flow discipline, so I tend to practice the Pomodoro technique - which is about enforced habit of working for short, concentrated bursts, taking a short breaks and l... --- ## I Want to Help One Billion People Prioritise Their Happiness Published: June 1, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/i-want-to-help-one-billion-people-prioritise-their-happiness Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/7aad3156-298b-451d-9c6f-551318d43219 A very bizarre set of events led me to discover Mo Gawdat and his movement onebillionhappy. This highly inspiring man who could, by all accounts, be sitting in his wealth, isolated from everything t... --- ## Bullies and Bluebells Published: May 4, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/bullies-and-bluebells Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/cbf1fab7-f988-482b-8fbe-a72ef3d18474 I was recently in a dialogue with a client and the conversation turned to "Evil Scrum" and some previous negative experiences that some people had experienced. They imposed velocity targets and demand... --- ## Lessons from a #LinkyBrains event no one else came to Published: April 18, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/lessons-from-a-linkybrains-event-no-one-else-came-to Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/2be2cc78-7821-498e-bccc-ed407be4c9fe The LinkyBrains movement is purely accidental. It has gained and is gaining momentum primarily through small groups of people meeting to have coffee, some lunch or just a walk. What brings them togeth... --- ## Three thoughts on April 14. Published: April 14, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/three-thoughts-on-april-14 Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/3a26912b-ed76-42ca-adf4-c8e5e8eaa08e I probably could have had a better, more clicky title. Can the crowd save the world? My wife and I had a BBQ today. It started out as my idea and it worked beautifully, the end, it was 'our' BBQ - eve... --- ## 10 Days into #LinkyBrains and this is what i's about for me. Published: March 29, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/10-days-into-linkybrains-and-this-is-what-its-about-for-me Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/7d5c53cc-1732-468e-be75-8494fc604b8f 10 mad days It has been the maddest 10 days of my life and I've had plenty mad. Time to reflect on this LinkyBrain thing - taking in all the feedback  that's rolling in from chats, blog posts and spo... --- ## I have a confession. I'm a #Linkybrain Published: March 25, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/i-have-a-confession-im-a-linkybrain Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/53cd29b4-f7c1-4764-b8ce-0135e14d43d7 The world became much less lonely for me two weeks ago. I was quietly minding my own business, doing what I always do - dream and deliver. Then I read something that connected with feelings I had buri... --- ## No one is unstoppable forever. Published: March 11, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/no-one-unstoppable-forever Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/a76d15c5-d97b-4904-a81c-88e67a066afb Looking at the current landscape of tech giants, from Facebook to Google, from Stripe to Intel, it is almost impossible to imagine they can ever be out-spent or out-competed.- Whilst they might seem ... --- ## March's 30 Day Challenge: 2 minutes of high knees + 3 minutes of push ups! Published: March 6, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/marchs-30-day-challenge-2-minutes-high-knees-3-minutes-push-ups Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/611502f0-99e0-44b5-96ea-86cc799350c0 5 Minutes seems the right amount of time To get to a very nice sweat - with the right exercises of course. The 30 Day Plank Challenge was phenomenal! My back, legs and core feel so much more reliable... --- ## My 15 Year List of Ideas is a Ready Made Company Selector Published: March 3, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/15-year-list-ideas-ready-made-company-selector Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/740b679e-d601-48ca-aeed-d576d9898743 For the last 15 years I've maintained a list of ideas to build - things that both excite me and improve the world. I've kept it pruned, adding new ideas, removing those that no longer seem viable and ... --- ## My first week of Helpful Conversations Published: February 19, 2018 URL: https://mhsutton.me/en/p/first-week-helpful-conversations Image: https://admin.contentcharge.io/assets/63ccc687-dfe9-43fc-8ba6-413b42211b5e Last week I started having Office Hours to have conversations with anyone who wanted  the benefit of my experience in startups, tech and a few other things from my 25+ years in the software space. Us...