The Goodwill Ledger
Essays on AI, leadership, trust and the future of institutions.
In an age of accelerating intelligence, the most important question is not only what we can build, but what we can be trusted to lead.
This is a collection of essays on how leaders, organisations and societies can build trust, direct intelligence and create long-term institutional value.
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The Illusion of Learning
AI can make a student’s work better before it makes the student better.
Schools, in the form most of us went through, are young. Not the idea of teaching children, which is ancient, but the broad architecture we recognise today: a building, a bell, thirty children of the same age in one room with one adult, a curriculum that says what they should know by the end of the year, and an exam that decides what happens next. That architecture is only a couple of hundred years old.
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Learning Before Answering
An AI tutor could reach every Grade 9 student in Mauritius in 2027. We have been building around one question: how do you help without doing the learning for the learner?
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Be a Tree
Eight lessons in living from an ordinary tree on a Mauritius beach.
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Why AI Needs a Registry
Owned workflows, trusted agents, and the discovery layer sovereign AI will need.
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The Return of Owned Software
AI will not kill software. It will change what enterprises rent, what workflows they own, and where the value goes.
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Field notes
The Mauritius We Choose
On Wednesday morning, after the first night of curfew, I walked through Port Louis.
From Sugar to AI: How Mauritius Keeps Moving Up
I was in Copenhagen last week for TM Forum's DTW Ignite and gave a keynote on how Mauritius is using AI. I had the obvious material ready: myt Learn, the personal AI tutor for school kids; the AI Registry the country is setting up; the training numbers in the national budget.
L'Oréal: AI-Powered, Not Artificial
I was in Paris last week for the Orange Leaders Meeting. One of the sessions I did not expect to stay with me was a fireside conversation with the CEO of L'Oréal, who had come to talk about the transformation his company is going through.
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