How I Work
How I Work is a productivity podcast hosted by organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber. Each episode features interviews with high-achieving people who share the daily routines, habits and strategies behind their success. Guests reveal practical tactics for boosting output, using tools like AI, managing overwhelm and balancing work with wellbeing. The focus is on battle-tested advice rather than motivational talk.
Episodes
How to make your frequent flyer points go further in 2027
You've spent years collecting frequent flyer points. Then you finally go to book a flight, and somehow the seats you want are never available. Or the points required seem ridiculous. Or you give up and pay cash anyway. As it turns out, collecting points is only half the game. Knowing which airlines to book with, where to look for reward seats, and when to use your points can make a differenc
The prompt that shows what your AI actually knows about you (and it’s less than you might think)
Your AI greets you like an old friend, then hands back something painfully average. Sometimes it even refers to a job you left two years ago. What your AI knows about you and what it simply assumes are two very different things, and the gap between them shapes every answer you get. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I look at what is actually sitting in your AI’s memory. We cover
How to master difficult conversations at work, with Tim Duggan
Around 80% of us will avoid conflict if given the chance, and Tim Duggan was firmly in that camp. In this episode, I sit down with Tim, author of Clear In Tension: How to Get Better at Conflict, to explore how we can all handle conflict with more skill and less dread. Tim spent 15 years running the media company Junkie Media, mediating other people’s disputes, all while dreading confli
Still arguing with AI over a bad first draft? Try these 4 tips
Do you still have a prompt formula saved somewhere, maybe an acronym from an Instagram reel that promised better answers from AI? You paste it in, swap a few words, hit send, and what comes back still misses the mark. Years of typing a few keywords into a search box have shaped how we talk to AI, and that habit might be costing you time and patience. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I
REPLAY: Feel like you’re always behind? Chris Guillebeau has a fix for your time anxiety (Part 1)
**REPLAY** Do you ever get the sense that no matter how much you do, you’re still running out of time? Like there’s something you should be doing, but you can’t quite figure out what it is? In this episode of How I Work, we sit down with New York Times bestselling author Chris Guillebeau to talk about a feeling so many of us carry but rarely name: time anxiety. From guilt o
Your prompts are stuck in 2025. Here are 5 fixes
Some prompts have been with you for a year or more. They open with a grand persona for the AI, add a few rules in capital letters, and finish with a request to think it all through. They worked well once, and lately the results feel slightly off. The AI models have changed, and a few of the habits we picked up in 2024 and 2025 now work against us. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I wa
REPLAY: Why you feel busy all the time (even when you’re not), with Laura Vanderkam
**REPLAY** What would you do with four extra hours a day? Probably say you don't have them. But according to Laura Vanderkam, one of the world's leading thinkers on time, they're already there. You're just not seeing them. Laura has tracked her own time for 11 years. She's run large-scale time-tracking studies with hundreds of participants. And what she keeps finding is the same th
Your custom GPTs and Gems are going away. Here's how to save them.
Who keeps moving my buttons? You know the one. You finally learn where everything lives, and overnight the menu has been rearranged, the feature has a new name, and the thing you spent months perfecting is on a list of things being retired. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I make sense of the latest shake-up: what is replacing GPTs and Gems, when the lights go out on each platform, and how
The Work Edit: The AI skill that saves me 200 minutes a week. Here's how to build yours.
Twenty minutes doesn't sound like much. Multiply it by ten sales calls a week and it adds up to more than three hours spent on a task that someone, or something, else could be doing. Now think about how many tasks like that are hiding in your own week, repeated so often that you no longer notice them. In this Work Edit, I sit down with Stephen, an organisational transformation advisor
AI is a terrible brainstormer (until you do this)
You ask AI for ideas and get a tidy list of ten, each one praised as being brilliant. The tempting move is to grab the first one that looks decent and get on with your day. The catch is that you've handed over the thinking, and what comes back tends to look a lot like what everyone else is getting. AI can be a far better brainstorming partner when it sharpens your thinking instead of replaci
The 7 types of rest you need, and how to find the one you're missing, with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
One surgeon takes his boat out onto a lake, screams until he can't scream anymore, and then cries. It is how he recovers from a job where patients die and he can't fall apart in front of his team. That is what emotional rest can look like for one person, and it is only one of seven types of rest that most of us have never thought to separate. Which raises this possibility: you might be resti
Your AI gets dumber at 60%. Here's the free fix.
Some of us have a favourite chat thread we keep coming back to, adding a bit more context every time we open it. It feels efficient, like you're building up a work buddy who really knows your stuff. But every extra message quietly chips away at how reliable that thread becomes, and by the time you notice, it's surprisingly hard to pull it back. Knowing when to walk away from a chat, and how
The Work Edit: 3 evening strategies to actually help you switch off
You've read the books. You've locked the phone in a drawer. You've set a hard cut-off at 8 PM. And none of it has lasted more than two weeks. That's exactly where Shaun found himself. By day he's a senior corporate strategy leader at Bupa, and by night he's the volunteer operations manager for a junior footy club responsible for 450 kids across eight teams. The systems he runs at work are ti
The 4 recurring tasks you should hand off to AI permanently
Most people treat AI like a vending machine: you show up, you ask, you wait. But what if there's another way to use it, one where the work gets done before you've even thought to ask for it. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I explore scheduled prompts: what they are, why they're worth setting up, and how to actually write one that works. What you'll learn: What a scheduled prom
Steal Jane Lu's system for delegating without losing control
Hiring someone is one of the highest-stakes decisions a founder makes. Get it wrong and you can lose time, money, and momentum. And after 16 years of building Showpo from her parents' garage into a nine-figure business, Jane Lu is the first to admit they still do not always get it right. But across all those hires, she has landed on one single biggest red flag she screens for, and it is prob
3 signs it's time to start a new chat thread
You've put in the work on your prompts. You know how to give AI the right context, set the right tone, ask the right questions. But then, mid-conversation, something shifts. The AI starts making things up, forgetting what you told it five minutes ago, contradicting itself. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I unpack what is actually happening when AI gets unreliable mid-conversation, includin
Why planning 60% of your day is the most productive thing you can do, with Cyril Peupion
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes not from working hard, but from never quite feeling like you've worked on the right things. You finish a full day, maybe a long one, and yet the projects that actually matter haven't moved. The inbox is cleaner, the meetings are done, but the needle hasn't shifted. Cyril Peupion has spent two decades coaching executives on exactly this problem
Quick Win: The million-dollar moment that tested Catriona Wallace’s integrity
When Dr Catriona Wallace was offered a million dollars to take out her nose ring, she didn’t hesitate. Her response wasn’t defiance - it was clarity. In this Quick Win, Catriona shares how she dealt with the sexism and double standards she faced as a tech CEO, from being told to “brush her hair” to being offered a million dollars to look more like the kind of leader i
The Work Edit: When gratitude becomes entitlement, and how to reset it
You give your team something rare. A four-day week. Flexible hours. Real breathing room. And for a while, it works beautifully. Then, gradually, the gratitude fades. The expectation creeps in. And suddenly, the gift feels like a given. This is one of the more uncomfortable paradoxes of building a genuinely good workplace: the better the culture you create, the faster it b
Quick Win: How to rebuild trust at work when its broken
Trust doesn’t rebuild with one big apology. It grows back quietly - through small, consistent moments that prove you mean what you say. In this Quick Win episode, my teammate Aly Solly and I share how we rebuilt trust after one of Inventium’s toughest years. Together, we discovered that trust isn’t restored overnight - it’s rebuilt in small, deliberate ways that show
The two numbers that predict whether you'll actually hit your goal, with Jia Jiang
Every productivity guru will tell you the same thing: set realistic goals, or you're setting yourself up to fail. Jia Jiang did the opposite. He told the internet he'd sell 10,000 copies of his new book in 100 days, sold about 3,000, and is now going around calling it one of the best things he's ever done. He's not being delusional about it either. He'll tell you straight up that part of him
Quick Win: The hidden reason AI isn’t delivering value at work, according to Dom Price
AI might be saving you time, but if you don’t know what to do with that time, it’s not worth much. In this Quick Win, I’m joined by Dom Price, who spent 12 years as the Work Futurist at Atlassian. Dom shares a powerful reminder: saving time with AI is meaningless unless you know how to reinvest that time intentionally. After watching o
The Work Edit: How to scale a consulting business without growing the team
Hiring feels like the obvious next move when a business starts doing well. More people, more capacity, more revenue. The logic is so clean it barely needs questioning. But the businesses with the smallest teams are sometimes the ones making the most money. This episode is part of The Work Edit, a format where I sit down with someone facing a real professional challenge and we
The prompting mistake almost everyone makes
How much of your week goes into fixing what AI just handed you? Not writing from scratch, just cleaning up, correcting, and nudging a draft that looked fine for about ten seconds before you actually needed it to work. That endless back and forth has a name. We call it slop fixing, and there is research suggesting it is quietly eating close to a full day of our working week. I
The 3 questions that reveal whether someone is actually motivated, with Dr Justin Coulson
Every manager and every parent has met the same wall. Someone who won't engage, won't budge, won't do the thing, no matter how hard you push or how much you offer. Dr Justin Coulson has spent two decades inside the research explaining why pushing and bribing rarely work, and what actually does. Justin is a psychologist, bestselling auth
Do these 2 things if you're worried about AI and the environment
There is a quiet guilt a lot of people carry every time they open ChatGPT. Somewhere between the headlines about data centres and the vague sense that AI is somehow worse for the planet than everything else we do without a second thought, it becomes easier to just feel bad than to actually work out whether that guilt is warranted. Nobody hands you the compa
Are you an insecure overachiever? Oliver Burkeman on why success never feels like enough
There's a particular kind of tightness that creeps in when the world feels unpredictable. We tidy the to-do list, tighten the routine, optimise one more thing, all in an attempt to feel a bit more in control. Oliver Burkeman has a word for this: clenching. And he reckons it's squeezing the life out of us, even when it looks a lot like productivity
What you should never paste into AI
Before you paste that customer list, that blood test result or that contract into your favourite AI tool, it's worth pausing for a second. Whatever you hand over doesn't just disappear after you get your answer. It sits somewhere, and depending on the tool and the settings, it might be doing more than just answering your question. Most people have never actually
Part 2: The loneliness of leadership no one warned you about, with Christian O'Connell
There is a version of leadership that looks effortless from the outside. The one where the leader always has the answers, always holds the vision, always appears composed. And then there is the version that happens in private, at 5:00 AM, when your mind is rehearsing every possible failure and no one can see it. What surprises most people is how often those two versions belong to t
Agents, Projects, and Skills (oh my!): A no-fluff guide on when to use each one
The AI world has has done a spectacularly bad job of naming things. Agents, GPTs, gems, notebooks, projects, skills - you'll find a completely different word for what is essentially the same kind of tool. Agents in one place, GPTs in another, gems somewhere else. Different names, similar ideas - and no handbook to tell you that. But the tools themselves are not
Part 1: Christian O'Connell on the habit that means he never runs out of stories
** Grab tickets for The Energy Game Melbourne launch (29 July, 6:30pm) here and order The Energy Game book here.** What if the stories you're most afraid to tell are the ones people most need to hear? Christian O'Connell has spent 28 years pulling stories out of strangers on live radio. He's had two number one breakfast shows on opposite sid
The three questions to ask before picking an AI platform
You see another article. "This platform just changed everything." And suddenly, the AI platform you've been using for months feels completely inadequate. You wonder if you're behind. You wonder if you should switch again. Neo and I have had this conversation more times than we can count, and it's one of the questions we get asked constantly at Inventium AI. 
How to get your energy back without overhauling your life
** Grab tickets for The Energy Game Melbourne launch (29 July, 6:30pm) here and order The Energy Game book here.** If you're someone who keeps saying yes when you should say no, or who has never once thought of rest as a skill worth building, this conversation will give you a starting point that doesn't require overhauling your life. This is part
Cowork explained in 10 Minutes
You've probably seen Cowork mentioned inside Claude, or perhaps you clocked the headlines when Microsoft folded it into Copilot a couple of weeks ago. Either way, the question people keep asking is simple: how is this actually different from just chatting with Claude? The answer comes down to files, time and money - three things that cha
The warning signs of burnout I missed for nearly an entire year
** Grab tickets for The Energy Game Melbourne launch (29 July, 6:30pm) here and order The Energy Game book here.** What does it take to realise you've hit burnout? For me, it wasn't a dramatic collapse. It was a fantasy about being hospitalised just so no one could contact me, and the hardest decision I'd face would
What is tokenomics, and why should you care
If your organisation has moved its AI licenses onto a per-use plan, every single chat thread your team sends is now adding to a bill. Some companies are already burning through their entire IT budget for AI within the first couple of months of the year, and most staff have no idea their usage is costing anything at all. It doesn't have to be a mystery. Ther
Behind the book deal: How a book goes from pitch to print, with Penguin Random House's Izzy Yates
** Grab tickets for The Energy Game Melbourne launch (29 July, 6:30pm) here and pre-order The Energy Game book here.** Writing a book is hard. But getting a publisher to say yes to your book? That is an entirely different challenge, and one that most aspiring authors know almost nothing about. What actually happens when a proposal lands on a publisher's desk?&n
Which AI model should I use for which task?
If you've ever stared at a model picker and wondered whether to click Flash, Sonnet, Opus, Instant, or Think Deeper, you are not alone. These naming conventions are genuinely confusing, and most people just pick something and hope it works. The stakes are higher than they might seem, though. Token misuse has left some companies with eye-watering AI bills, including one case where a singl
The two AI mistakes hurting your team's productivity, with Dom Price
We're using AI more than ever. And yet, according to research from Glean's Work AI Institute, only 10% of Australians say AI is significantly improving organisational performance. The truth is that most organisations have done what Dom Price calls the "Woodstock theory" of AI adoption: build it and they will come. Throw the tools out there, hope people figure it 
The early warning signs of burnout you're probably ignoring (feat. my new book The Energy Game)
** Grab tickets for The Energy Game Melbourne launch (29 July, 6:30pm) here and pre-order The Energy Game book here.** You have the calendar colour-coded. You time block. You deep work. You have iterated on your to-do list more times than you can count. And yet somehow, you are still exhausted - falling further behind, produc
Always chasing the next achievement? Jennifer Breheny Wallace has a better way to measure your life
There is a question most of us skip past entirely in our daily lives: do I actually matter? Not "am I useful?" or "am I successful?" but do I matter, as a person, independent of what I produce or achieve? It sounds simple. But the research suggests we are terrible at actually living like the answer is yes. In this episode, I sit down with Jennifer Breheny Wallace, j
Quick Win: The creative secret behind Exploding Kittens’ thousand-idea design retreats
What happens when a team generates a thousand ideas - and kills most of them within minutes? In this Quick Win, I speak with Exploding Kittens co-creator Elan Lee about how he and his team turn chaos into creativity during their quarterly design retreats. Over three intense days, they generate, test, and ruthlessly discard ideas - all without bruising egos. Elan shares how he’s b
The Work Edit: Struggling to say no? The method I use that makes every decision easier
In a portfolio career, requests have a funny way of multiplying. A speaking gig here, a board invite there, a coffee catch-up that sounds valuable but drains you for days. The answer to all of them is technically "yes" right up until the moment it isn't. Katie is 18 months into consulting and a portfolio career, and she came to me with a problem a lot of people share
8 tasks you should never do manually again
**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here: https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents** You have access to AI. You probably use it a fair bit. And yet there's a good chance you're still manually scrubbing through meeting transcripts, tabbing between LinkedIn and Google News before every sales call, and spending 20 minutes writing an executive summary for a pape
What watching 20,000 auditions teaches you about getting attention, with Big Brother and The X Factor creator Maz Farrelly
Most professionals are terrible at talking about themselves. Not because they lack substance, but because no one ever taught them that being interesting is a skill, and that skill can be learned. Maz Farrelly has spent decades on the other side of that problem. As the executive producer behind Big Brother, The X Factor, and Celebrity Apprentice, she has auditioned over 20,000 people, ha
(BONUS) The psychology of the pitch: what TV producers know that salespeople don't, with Maz Farrelly
We put someone on the moon in 1969. We didn't put wheels on suitcases until 1972. The problem was: Nobody had stopped to notice the problem existed in the first place. That gap - between the problems people will tell you about, the ones they'll only admit after a drink, and the ones they don't even know they have - is exactly where Maz Farrel
The agent that Neo uses every single day
**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here: https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents** You type a research question into your AI tool, get back a perfectly serviceable answer, and still feel like something's missing. The output isn't wrong, exactly. It just didn't quite hit the mark. The culprit, more often than not, is the prompt you started with.
The Work Edit: Everyone is using AI to apply for jobs. Here's how to stand out.
Knowing how hiring works does not prepare you for what job hunting actually feels like right now. Today’s guest, Nicole, found that out the hard way. She has spent 30 years on the hiring side of the table. She has interviewed hundreds of candidates, read thousands of applications, and knows exactly what good looks like. So when she re-entered the job market
The three agents every knowledge worker should have
**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here: https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents** You sit down to research something for work, open a few tabs, type a vague query into AI, and get back something that feels… fine. Technically an answer. Not quite useful. Meanwhile, that report you've been working on probably needs another set of eyes, but getting re
What I told Lael Stone about my worst year
**This week I'm sharing a crossover episode from the Humans, being. podcast with the wonderful Lael Stone. It's one of the more personal chats I've done in a while. We talk about my burnout year, the tiny experiments that brought me back, AI and where I think it's headed, and the uncomfortable question of whether being ordinary might actually be enough. I hope you love it as much as I loved having
How to build a knowledge agent that answers every 101 question - so you don't have to
**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here: https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents** There's a question you've answered a hundred times before. You know the one. Someone pings you, you stop what you're doing, dig through a document or two, and type out the same response you've typed a dozen times this month. It doesn't feel catastrophic i
I asked a LinkedIn insider how to actually stand out on LinkedIn in 2026
There's a moment a lot of professionals know well. You put real thought into a LinkedIn post, hit publish, and watch the likes trickle in. Five. Maybe six. One comment from a colleague you personally recruited into the thread. Meanwhile, your feed has started to look like it was written by the same person. Polished, vaguely inspirational, and somehow saying nothing at all. In
(BONUS) Behind the mic: The art of the interview, with Jessi Hempel
There are interviews, and then there are conversations. The best podcast hosts know the difference, and the gap between the two is harder to close than it looks. In this bonus episode, I get to turn the tables. Jessi Hempel (host of the podcast Hello Monday and senior editor-at-large at LinkedIn) and I nerded out on the craft we both love: what it actually takes
Agents explained in 10 minutes (no jargon, no hype)
**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here: https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents** The word "agents" is everywhere right now. It shows up in product updates, LinkedIn posts, and conversations at work, and yet for a lot of people, it still doesn't quite click. What actually is an agent? Is it the same as agentic AI? And does any of this actually matter for the w
Why you feel busy all the time (even when you’re not), with Laura Vanderkam
What would you do with four extra hours a day? Probably say you don't have them. But according to Laura Vanderkam, one of the world's leading thinkers on time, they're already there. You're just not seeing them. Laura has tracked her own time for 11 years. She's run large-scale time-tracking studies with hundreds of participants. And what she keeps fin
Why most AI rollouts fail (and how to make sure yours doesn't)
You've bought the licenses. You've made the announcement. And a few months later, you're staring at a workforce either ignoring the tools entirely or churning out AI-generated fluff that nobody's reading. The ROI? Nowhere to be found. The problem isn't AI. It's how organisations are rolling it out. In this How I AI episode, Neo and
Are you an initiator or a responder? Tom Rath on thriving in the age of AI
What if the thing you spend the most time on at work won't matter at all when you're gone? It's a confronting question, but it's the kind Tom Rath lives with deliberately. He walks past a 10,000-headstone cemetery near his home in Washington DC and has never once seen a grave mention social media followers, email response times, or job titles. Yet
What AI capability really looks like in high-performing teams
Sign up for Inventium’s AI Agent Bootcamp virtual or in-person. Your organisation hit its AI adoption target. Eighty percent of staff have a licence, onboarding is done, and the usage dashboard looks great. So why does the work feel the same, or worse? Hitting an adoption target and actually getting value from AI are two completely different things, and most organisations are confusing one f
This is what AI is actually doing to your brain, with Gabriella Rosen Kellerman
The more AI tools you use, the more productive you get. Right? Not exactly. Boston Consulting Group leader Gabriella Rosen Kellerman studied what actually happens to people who are using AI intensively at work, and what she found is that beyond a certain point, something breaks. Not burnout. Something different, something the existing research wasn't e
The #1 mistake people make with AI
Every time you open a new AI chat, you're starting from scratch. You type out the background, explain your role, describe the project. Then you do it again tomorrow. And the day after. There's a better way, and it takes about 15 minutes over a cup of coffee. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I walk through the briefing document - a single context file that gives AI everything it needs to understan
Sabri Suby on video sales letters, and the negotiation mistakes almost everyone makes (Part 2)
You're in sales. Even if your job title has nothing to do with sales, you are selling every single day. Ideas, proposals, budget requests, buy-in. The only question is whether you're any good at it. In part two of our chat, I sit down with Sabri Suby, founder of King Kong and a shark on the most recent season of Shark Tank Australia, to get into the skills that have helped him close over $300 mill
Why you need to talk, not type, to your AI
You are almost certainly doing most of your computer work the slow way. Think about the last time you sat down to write an email, rename a file, or work through a tricky problem at your desk. Chances are, your fingers went straight to the keyboard. And you are not alone — when Neo and I ask audiences how much of their computer time is spent typing versus talking, almost everyone is close to
The Subtraction Method: How Sabri Suby protects his time and focus (Part 1)
What if the secret to getting more done was to stop doing things? Sabri Suby, founder of King Kong, one of Australia's fastest-growing digital agencies and a shark on the most recent season of Shark Tank Australia, has built his entire work philosophy around subtraction. He audits every hour of his week, limits meetings to two days, and has trained his "fixer" to keep the outside world from ever r
Our #1 favourite AI tool for meetings
There is a moment most people have had in a meeting: the AI bot joins before your guest does, someone has to awkwardly ask if recording is okay, and the whole dynamic shifts. It is enough friction that most people just give up and go back to scribbling notes by hand. There is a better way, and it does not involve anyone knowing a bot is even in the room. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I do a de
The AI playbook of ELMO Software’s President, Joseph Lyons
Being prepared is one of those things that sounds straightforward until you actually look at a leader's calendar. Back-to-back meetings, a constant stream of reports from different teams, and negotiations that require you to know the full history of a relationship before you've even said hello. The pressure to be across everything is massive. The time to actually get there rarely is. In this episo
Stop writing like a robot - ban these AI words and phrases
Download Inventium.ai's anti-AI slop prompt here: https://amantha-imber.kit.com/d5f746bd3e You can always tell when something's been written by AI. The LinkedIn post that opens with "in today's fast-paced world." The article that ends with "it's not about X, it's about Y." Technically fine, but somehow hollow. Like it was written by nobody in particular. The frustrating part is that this can happe
Ask Me Anything with Dr Amantha Imber: Burnout, AI, Productivity & The Biggest Mistakes Knowledge Workers Make
**Record a question for Amantha’s next Ask Me Anything here: https://www.speakpipe.com/howiwork ** It's Ask Me Anything time! I asked listeners of How I Work to send in the biggest challenges they’re facing at work right now: from AI overwhelm to constant meetings to feeling busy but not actually making progress. In this Ask Me Anything episode, I tackle questions like: Wh
How we have automated AI to summarise industry news, trends, and other updates – every single week
That wall of industry newsletters in your inbox isn’t a reading list. It’s a stress list. You tell yourself you’ll get to them later. You don’t. And the pile keeps growing. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I explore how to use AI as a structured research assistant. Not just to summarise articles, but to fil
Why visualising success might be sabotaging you, with Nir Eyal (Part 2)
Visualising success feels productive. Vision boards, manifesting, picturing the finish line. It gives the sense that you’re moving closer to the goal. But according to the research, that mental shortcut might actually be working against you. In Part 2 of this two-parter (listen to Part 1 here), I continue my conversation with behaviour
How to use AI to prioritise when everything feels urgent
When your to-do list feels endless and everything seems equally urgent, it’s hard to know where to start. The overwhelm doesn’t usually come from one big task. It comes from trying to hold meetings, emails, projects and life admin in your head all at once. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I walk through practical ways to use AI to help you prio
Struggling to reach your goals? Nir Eyal explains the beliefs holding you back (Part 1)
What if the biggest obstacle standing between you and the things you want in life isn’t your effort, your discipline, or even your circumstances? What if it’s the beliefs you didn’t realise you were holding. In Part 1 of a two-part conversation, I sit down with behavioural scientist and bestselling author Nir Eyal to unpack how our hidden belie
The one question every leader should ask about AI
Rolling out Copilot or ChatGPT and hoping productivity magically improves rarely works. In fact, for many leaders, it creates more confusion, more noise and, in some cases, more work. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I unpack the single most important question leaders should be asking about AI adoption: how can I help my people be ready for AI? Because bringing AI into your o
Feel stuck in small talk? Daniel Coyle shares the questions that create real connection.
We all have stories worth telling. Yet most of us decide ours aren’t interesting enough, important enough, or universal enough to share. In this episode, I’m joined by Daniel Coyle to explore why that instinct is usually wrong. Daniel is the bestselling author of The Talent Code, The Culture Code, and his latest book Flourish. Tog
The AI critique system we use to improve our work
Download Inventium.ai’s custom GPT instructions to create your own Personal AI Reviewer Buddy here: https://amantha-imber.kit.com/51dd2a9719 Producing high volumes of work isn’t the hard part anymore. Producing high quality is. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I walk through how to use AI as a rigorous reviewer of your work &n
The 5 skills that will get you promoted this year, with Tim Duggan
If you’re aiming for a promotion this year, here’s a slightly awkward thought: the skills that got you here might not be the ones that get you there. Work is shifting fast. Not incrementally. Fundamentally. And according to LinkedIn data, around 70% of the skills we’ll need over the next five years are about to change. In t
How to use AI to find a new job
Job hunting can feel like a full-time job in itself. Scrolling listings, second-guessing roles, and trying to stand out in a sea of applications. In this How I AI episode, we walk through how AI can quietly take some of that invisible work off your plate without doing the thinking for you. We talk through how AI can support you at each stage of the job search. From spotting roles that n
The truth about fibre, full-body MRIs and food myths, with Dr Joanna McMillan.
Every week there’s a new study telling us what not to eat. Coffee is bad. Eggs are dangerous. Spinach blocks nutrients. Or so we’re told. Add in cholesterol numbers, preventative scans, detox trends and a constant stream of “toxic” food warnings online, and it’s easy to start second-guessing what&rsquo
We let AI prep us for a doctors appointment
Doctor and specialist appointments are expensive, time-limited, and often overwhelming. It’s easy to walk in underprepared and walk out wishing you’d asked better questions or understood more of what was said. We talk through how we use AI to prepare for doctor and specialist appointments so the time is spent on diagnosis and solutions, not ramb
Walking away from a dream job? Dom Price reveals what really happens in the space after “I quit.”
After 12 years as the Work Futurist at Atlassian, Dom Price made the decision to leave a role so intertwined with who he was that even introducing himself meant saying those two things in the same breath. In this episode, Dom and I explore the human side of change - the fog, the discomfort, the loss of structure, and the surprising freedom that comes when you finally say out loud, &ldquo
How to use AI to save money shopping
Shopping should be simple. But for most of us, it’s turned into tabs open everywhere, conflicting reviews, and that lingering doubt that you’ve either missed a better option or paid more than you needed to. We walk through how we actually use AI tools when we’re buying something, from working out what problem&
