Switched ON

Switched ON

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.
 • Nishma Patel Robb
AI is having a midlife crisis.
Everyone asks whether midlife can keep up with AI. It's the other way round.
 • 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.
 • 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.
 • Nishma Patel Robb
Day 30: You’re Switched ON
The last one. Everything you built in 30 days
 • Nishma Patel Robb
Day 29: Give it a real problem. Watch the whole thing work.
The payoff of a month of context: hand your whole set-up one real problem and watch what becomes possible now it actually knows you.
 • Nishma Patel Robb
Day 28: Make it reusable, then show it.
Two moves to close the week: turn your proudest build into something you reuse forever, then show one piece of it to the world.
 • Nishma Patel Robb
Day 27: Set it running, and walk away.
Put your skills on a schedule so the work happens while you sleep. And finally get straight on what’s actually an agent, and what isn’t.
 • Nishma Patel Robb

June 2026

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