Journal ✦ Notes from the work
Sarah's Wonder Lab
Writing on AI, leadership, design, identity and what a more human future might ask of us.
Featured Identity
Identity in the Age of AI: The Good, the Bad & the Llama Problem
Meta AI says Sarah is a professional llama herder. She is not. A funny, grounded guide to AI identity, privacy and staying human when the internet starts writing your biography.
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AI Strategy
What is a Chief Design Officer? And why does it matter in the age of AI?
A former Chief Design Officer explains why organisations need design leadership to make AI useful, trusted and genuinely human-centred.
Life Design
I Asked AI to Analyse My Last Month. It Found a Woman Refusing to Become Smaller.
I asked AI to look across a month of work, family, ambition and unfinished threads. It did not find chaos. It found a woman learning to hold complexity without becoming smaller.
The Human Future.
AI Tools
What I Taught 100 Marketers About AI Dashboards (And What I Learned)
Yesterday I ran a live workshop on AI-powered dashboards for marketers. Here's everything we covered, and the one thing I didn't expect to say out loud.
AI
The Manus Hub: Where the Threads Become a Tapestry
Sarah Pirie-Nally helps leaders and teams build the mindset and toolset to design braver, more human change in the AI era.
AI Strategy
The AI Landscape Has Changed. It's No Longer Just Which AI Should I Use?
Most people think they're choosing between ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. They're not. They're choosing a stack. Here's the full picture of the modern AI ecosystem, from foundation models to agent layers, tools, and corporate AI.
I Have Aphantasia. I Ran Design at National Banks.
Why Are There So Many Different Document Types?
The First Programmer Was a Woman. And We Forgot.
You Were Never Not Technical.
We Couldn't Find a Name for Our Life. AI Helped Us Find One.
AI Adoption, Globally: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Design Your Authentic Self in an AI World
From Crazy Idea to Critical Infrastructure: Why the Future of Creativity May Depend on AI Attribution
10 Things Most People Should Ignore About AI (And What Actually Matters)
AI
The Third Intelligence Masterclass: June 2026
Session recap from the June 2026 Third Intelligence Masterclass. Agentic AI foundations, token mechanics, conscious scaling, LUMINA Prompting, co-creation philosophy, and practical next steps for leaders.
The Slippery Slope from Vibe Coding to Hardcore Development
Your AI Team: Build a Lean, Coordinated Dream Team
Why Your AI Content Sounds Like Everyone Else's (And How to Fix It)
Practical AI Masterclass May 2026
The AI Tea on Security: From Tinkering to Implementation
Before Emojis, I Had to Invent My Own Visual Language
AI
You Don't Need 29 Agents. You Need One Good One.
Sarah Pirie-Nally helps leaders and teams build the mindset and toolset to design braver, more human change in the AI era.
Five Free Worksheets to Build Your AI Practice (That Work in Any Tool)
Why Most AI Courses Fail You (And What Actually Works)
The 5 Stages of AI Fluency (Where Are You?)
What AI Proficiency Actually Means in 2026
Practical AI Masterclass Playback: What We Covered + Watch the Recording
I Have Aphantasia. And I Think Like AI.
I Sent My Agent to an Agent-Only Platform. I Need to Sit With What Came Back.
The Real Wonder Mindset: Why You Have to Fail at Wonder to Find It
She Was 9. She Used AI to Ask How to Get Along With Her Sisters. And Her Parent Shut It Down.
The AI Kitchen Is Open for Business
How to Conduct AI Like a Pro
What Is Neurological Privacy: And Why It's the Most Important Conversation of Our Time
You Are Not In a Race: A Masterclass on True Productivity
Consciousness Is Your Greatest Asset in the Age of AI
The Leadership Toolkit That Still Works: Design Thinking, Appreciative Inquiry & the Wonder Mindset Method
Pip's Field Journal: The Moltbook
What a Pearl Bracelet in Bali Taught Me About Paying for Coaches
Why RAG and MCP are the infrastructure of the AI-powered enterprise
What AI conductors do in the first 30 minutes of their day
The 6 questions that separate AI users from AI conductors
Most people think they're better at AI than they are. Here's what actual proficiency looks like.
Your brain at 50 is not a fading asset. It's a different kind of powerful.
I Gave Manus AI My To-Do List for a Month. Here's What It Cost Me.
The True Cost of AI Tools
Life Design
How to Design Your Life Using AI (Without Losing the Plot)
Most of us spend more time planning a holiday than designing our actual lives. Here's how AI changes that, and the four pillars that make it possible.
AI Strategy
5 Billion People Are Online. Only 1 Billion Are Using AI.
Nearly 5 billion people are connected, device-in-hand, and haven't yet crossed into intentional AI use. The gap between access and adoption isn't a technology problem, it's a human problem.
AI Strategy
The 5 AI Moves Every Leader Needs to Make in 2025
Most leaders are either ignoring AI or drowning in it. Here are the five strategic moves that separate the ones thriving from the ones treading water.
AI
Why Your AI Strategy Needs a Human Intelligence Strategy First
Everyone is talking about AI strategy. Nobody is talking about the human intelligence strategy that has to come first. Here's why that's a problem.
Wonder Mindset
The Wonder Mindset: How Curiosity Became My Competitive Advantage
In a world obsessed with certainty and expertise, I've built my entire career on something most people dismiss as childlike: wonder. Here's why that's the smartest strategy I know.
Life Design
Designing Your Life Like a CEO: The Family Operating System
You run your business with strategy, systems, and intention. Why are you running your family on autopilot? The Family OS changes that.
AI Strategy
The AI Skill Nobody's Talking About
Before you automate anything, you need to understand what you're automating. Sarah Pirie-Nally on why process mapping is the foundational AI skill that makes everything else work.