[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" row_position_desktop="default" row_position_tablet="inherit" row_position_phone="inherit" overflow="visible" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" flex_gap_desktop="10px" column_element_direction_desktop="default" column_element_spacing="default" desktop_text_alignment="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_backdrop_filter="none" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" column_position="default" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" animation_type="default" bg_image_animation="none" border_type="simple" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text css="" text_direction="default"]Substack's new AI writing detector scored three paragraphs of mine three different ways: human, then AI, then human again. I decided being part synthetic was fine by me, and it got me thinking about what actually changes when AI sits in the room while you write. This piece gets into the Pangram debate, why optimisation gets a free pass while creativity stays controversial, and what a very good friend of mine said about the real risk, which has nothing to do with detectors and everything to do with people who write like a machine because they think that is what good writing sounds like. It also touches on why I never picked up the em dash, and how that choice comes back to trusting your own instinct. Read the full piece on Substack.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
https://liviabernardini.substack.com/p/100-human-100-ai-100-human[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" row_position_desktop="default" row_position_tablet="inherit" row_position_phone="inherit" overflow="visible" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" flex_gap_desktop="10px" column_element_direction_desktop="default" column_element_spacing="default" desktop_text_alignment="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_backdrop_filter="none" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" column_position="default" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" animation_type="default" bg_image_animation="none" border_type="simple" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text css="" text_direction="default"]I spent two weeks telling you to unplug and go find a possum or talk to a fern, and then Claude and ChatGPT went and made my whole argument for me, just faster. This piece walks through five things I hear constantly in meetings, prompts that take longer to write than the task itself, stats that sound right until someone checks them, and the now familiar because Claude said so delivered with a straight face. I also share what a CEO asked me on stage at MAD//Fest that changed how I think about AI and creative work, and why the answer means trained intuition just became the load bearing skill rather than a nice to have. If you have ever caught yourself shipping something on a Friday evening that felt slightly off, this one is for you. It links back to when your intuition is actually worth trusting. Read the full piece on Substack.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
https://liviabernardini.substack.com/p/because-claude-said-so-and-other[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" row_position_desktop="default" row_position_tablet="inherit" row_position_phone="inherit" overflow="visible" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" flex_gap_desktop="10px" column_element_direction_desktop="default" column_element_spacing="default" desktop_text_alignment="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_backdrop_filter="none" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" column_position="default" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" animation_type="default" bg_image_animation="none" border_type="simple" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text css="" text_direction="default"]It took less than three weeks living at the edge of a forest to get a reluctant "you were right" out of my very committed city-slicker husband. This piece is about the science of attention restoration behind why that happened, and it has nothing to do with willpower. Nature restores attention your screen has been quietly spending, and the attention restoration research on why is more specific than you would think, right down to the exact shape of a fern. I get into working memory studies, the fractal patterns your nervous system actually prefers, and a conversation with a MAD//Fest speaker about what we lose when a machine starts doing our thinking for us. It pairs well with what I wrote about stepping away from your desk to think better. Read the full piece on Substack.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
https://liviabernardini.substack.com/p/what-a-fern-can-do-for-your-attention[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" row_position_desktop="default" row_position_tablet="inherit" row_position_phone="inherit" overflow="visible" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" flex_gap_desktop="10px" column_element_direction_desktop="default" column_element_spacing="default" desktop_text_alignment="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_backdrop_filter="none" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" column_position="default" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" animation_type="default" bg_image_animation="none" border_type="simple" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text css="" text_direction="default"]When I moved from Rome to Melbourne I quit smoking and became convinced within months that I had lost my intelligence along with the cigarettes. I was wrong, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to work out why. It was never the nicotine doing the thinking, it was the walk outside, away from my desk, watching a possum do absolutely nothing in a gum tree. This piece is about the incubation effect, the well documented reason your best ideas turn up once you stop chasing them, what conditions actually make it work, and the one place I think AI has no business being. It sets up nicely for what a fern can do for your attention, which I wrote the following week. Read the full piece on Substack.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
https://liviabernardini.substack.com/p/what-a-possum-taught-me-about-thinking[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" row_position_desktop="default" row_position_tablet="inherit" row_position_phone="inherit" overflow="visible" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" flex_gap_desktop="10px" column_element_direction_desktop="default" column_element_spacing="default" desktop_text_alignment="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_backdrop_filter="none" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" column_position="default" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" animation_type="default" bg_image_animation="none" border_type="simple" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text css="" text_direction="default"]Your body reaches a verdict before your mind has finished reading the evidence. You walk out of a meeting that went well on paper and something sits wrong in your chest anyway. This piece is the practical follow up to last week's, and it gives you an actual grid for what to do when that happens: gut yes or no, data yes or no, four honest outcomes, and the one small word a friend added that fixed its biggest flaw. I also tell you about the green light I trusted that became a Cannes-winning product, and the red flag I overrode that eventually cost me a business, even though my instinct about the idea itself was proven right years later. It builds directly on the two conditions that decide if your intuition is right. Read the full piece on Substack.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
http://liviabernardini.substack.com/p/red-flags-green-lights-20[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" row_position_desktop="default" row_position_tablet="inherit" row_position_phone="inherit" overflow="visible" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" flex_gap_desktop="10px" column_element_direction_desktop="default" column_element_spacing="default" desktop_text_alignment="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_backdrop_filter="none" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" column_position="default" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" animation_type="default" bg_image_animation="none" border_type="simple" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text css="" text_direction="default"]I was thirty-three before I could name a single real regret, and then a big one arrived. A dear friend was having a five-day royal wedding in Sudan, and I said no because I had convinced myself my start-up needed me more. I called it my gut talking, but it was mostly confirmation bias wearing my gut's clothes. This piece is about how I learned to trust your intuition without confusing it for confirmation bias. It centres on a paper by Gary Klein and Daniel Kahneman, two researchers who argued for years before landing on the same two conditions for when intuition can actually be trusted. Firefighters and stock pickers both get a feeling of certainty, yet only one of them is standing on solid ground, and honest feedback is what decides which. This is the thinking behind the decision grid I built afterwards. Read the full piece on Substack.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
https://liviabernardini.substack.com/p/the-two-conditions-that-decide-if[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" row_position_desktop="default" row_position_tablet="inherit" row_position_phone="inherit" overflow="visible" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" flex_gap_desktop="10px" column_element_direction_desktop="default" column_element_spacing="default" desktop_text_alignment="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_backdrop_filter="none" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" column_position="default" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" animation_type="default" bg_image_animation="none" border_type="simple" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text css="" text_direction="default"]I once held a confident, well reasoned, morally comfortable opinion, and it lasted about five hours. A campaign I had advised on drew a wave of comments, and the platform deleted almost half of them as homophobic. I agreed with that call until I actually read all thousand of them myself. Most were not homophobic at all, they were parents raising a fair point about age appropriate content, and I changed my position within the same afternoon. This piece is about building that muscle on purpose, holding your strongest opinions as hypotheses rather than conclusions, and it includes a thirteen item test from actual cognitive science so you can score your own open minded thinking. It follows on nicely from the piece on how your brain filters what you notice. Read the full piece on Substack.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
https://liviabernardini.substack.com/p/when-did-you-last-change-your-mind[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" row_position_desktop="default" row_position_tablet="inherit" row_position_phone="inherit" overflow="visible" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" flex_gap_desktop="10px" column_element_direction_desktop="default" column_element_spacing="default" desktop_text_alignment="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_backdrop_filter="none" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" column_position="default" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" animation_type="default" bg_image_animation="none" border_type="simple" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text css="" text_direction="default"]The best work of your career almost certainly did not belong to you alone, and no idea is ever quite as original as it feels while you are having it. This piece looks at why diverse rooms consistently outthink brilliant individuals, and the actual research behind it, including an MIT study showing group performance tracks social sensitivity far more than average IQ. I also tell the story of the career move that cost me a demotion and a pay cut in 2003, and how it turned out to be the best decision of my career for reasons that took me fifteen years to fully understand. Then there is the question of where AI actually belongs at the table, as a participant to be interrogated, never as the room itself. This sets up what I wrote next about practising open minded thinking without becoming insufferable. Read the full piece on Substack.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
https://liviabernardini.substack.com/p/your-best-career-hack-is-the-collective[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" column_margin="default" column_direction="default" column_direction_tablet="default" column_direction_phone="default" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" row_border_radius="none" row_border_radius_applies="bg" row_position_desktop="default" row_position_tablet="inherit" row_position_phone="inherit" overflow="visible" overlay_strength="0.3" gradient_direction="left_to_right" shape_divider_position="bottom" bg_image_animation="none"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_tablet="inherit" column_padding_phone="inherit" column_padding_position="all" flex_gap_desktop="10px" column_element_direction_desktop="default" column_element_spacing="default" desktop_text_alignment="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_backdrop_filter="none" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" column_link_target="_self" column_position="default" gradient_direction="left_to_right" overlay_strength="0.3" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" animation_type="default" bg_image_animation="none" border_type="simple" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text css="" text_direction="default"]A doctor once told me I was on my way to a heart attack by fifty, or I could live to a hundred if I gave myself five minutes a day to do what I had just done in his clinic. My stress test scores put me in the top two percent he had ever seen. I still could not meditate for four straight years. This piece is honest about that failure and about what finally changed it, a 2025 paper on opportunistic assimilation, the mechanism where your brain quietly keeps an unresolved problem open and scans everything you encounter for the piece that will solve it, until the answer arrives somewhere unexpected, in my case on a beach, from a friend, after a year of what felt like doing absolutely nothing. It leads straight into why a room can sense things no single person in it can. Read the full piece on Substack.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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