Archive - Switched ON

Dolly, Whitney, Freddie and Bowie, and the one thing a name changed about how I work with AI.

Sep 16 • Nishma Patel Robb

Mostly Harmless: The AI Doom Warnings, Translated

What they mean, and the four things I now check in my business.

Sep 14 • Nishma Patel Robb

Pervy or Practical?

The glasses are back, and this time they work. The question that killed them the first time is still sitting there, unanswered.

Sep 6 • Nishma Patel Robb

Mad Men. The AI Reboot.

Women hold 13% of AI's executive seats and more than half of its lowest-paid job. Time to rewrite the casting.

Sep 1 • Nishma Patel Robb

August 2026

Do Androids Dream of Em Dashes?

The AI detectors have appointed themselves judges of who counts as human. They keep getting it wrong.

Aug 31 • Nishma Patel Robb

Dolly Parton died on Tuesday. Eighty years old, and the world still hadn’t finished underestimating her.

Aug 27 • Nishma Patel Robb

My Keyboard Era Is Over

I found Wispr Flow because RSI made typing painful. I stayed because talking turned out to be the way to get the best out of me.

Aug 23 • Nishma Patel Robb

The Wrong Letters

We deleted the bottom rung of working life and called it efficiency. This one's for 'A' Level results day. For the 18-year-olds, and for the grown-ups…

Aug 13 • Nishma Patel Robb

July 2026

Computer Says No, You're 52

The state is raising the age you can retire. The market is lowering the age it will hire you. We are the bit in the middle.

Jul 26 • Nishma Patel Robb

AI is having a midlife crisis.

Everyone asks whether midlife can keep up with AI. It's the other way round.

Jul 21 • Nishma Patel Robb

In praise of the chatterbox

Why talking to AI beats typing at it, why the grammar police were never the point, and why I love writing more now that I do less of it.

Jul 9 • Nishma Patel Robb

Burnout was coming. So I switched on

Alone at Christmas, I made one decision - which turned into a 30-day experiment, 800 women, and a whole company.

Jul 6 • Nishma Patel Robb

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