We Killed Curiosity Long Before AI Arrived
What curiosity actually is, and why treating it as a personality trait costs organisations more than they realise.A formative experience from a 1995 computer science classroom, and what it taught me about how environments shape who stays and who leaves.Two CEOs who built people-first cultures during their companies' worst moments, and what their results show.The Deloitte research on AI investment that should stop every leader in their tracks.What recent research on nearly 2,000 working adults reveals about who is actually losing their thinking to AI.What the founding figures of modern AI are actually warning about, and why their voices keep getting absorbed into the fear narrative they're trying to counter.Why fear is never a good teacher, and what curiosity offers instead.What leaders can do to bring curiosity back into their teams before AI accelerates what was already lost.Deloitte AI ROI research (October 2025)BCG AI Adoption researchResearch on AI use and confidence in own thinking (Technology, Mind, and Behavior, April 2026)Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio on AI safetyDelta Airlines under Ed Bastian's leadershipLEGO under Jørgen Vig Knudstorp's leadershipNext reflection episode: Reclaiming Our Curiosity.
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