Andrew Hill
Journalist, speaker, writer
- Colleague and fellow Davos-goer @pilitaclark.bsky.social has ideated around her North Star, operationalised her five days at the Alpine summit and shared some key takeaways that should be top of mind as you follow your red thread through 2026 as.ft.com/r/d6606d08-1...
- “Less an algorithmic perversion than a mirror to our already pervasive ego-massaging culture” - @emmavj.bsky.social on the sycophantic omnipresence of AI in our work lives as.ft.com/r/4177d473-5...
- Reposted by Andrew HillPray you once more, Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear? Know man from man? Dispute his own estate? Lies he not bed-rid? And again does nothing But what he did being childish?
- A warm welcome to Standard Chartered, new partner for the FT Business Book of the Year Award #BBYA26 #BusinessBooks as.ft.com/r/9db1f3fa-a...
- “Culture remains. Because even if you destroy the books, that culture is within people, their minds, in everything” - an uplifting tale for this ominous new year #booksky as.ft.com/r/5ebe84b7-d...
- In praise of boredom - the FT View about how to cultivate the right type of tedium over the festive period as.ft.com/r/be5e9690-4...
- Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is “totally driven by negative emotion in a way that I have never seen in a CEO before” - my interview with FT/Schroders book award-winner Stephen Witt on the FT Behind the Money podcast #BBYA25 open.spotify.com/episode/2xvq...
- Onward and upward for stairlift maker Stannah, as the family heads upstairs and brings in its first non-family CEOs. My interview with 5th- and 6th-generation Jon and Sam Stannah on success, succession and family values as.ft.com/r/792c958b-d...
- What if “the book could respond to the reader, and, using AI, generate a unique bespoke text that speaks directly to their concerns”? - my interview with FT/Schroders award-winner Stephen Witt on Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the future of books as.ft.com/r/7aa36214-e... #BBYA25
- Musk’s trillion-dollar payout “floats beyond Neptune, about 17,000 times the distance of a mere moonshot” - my column on why Elon’s out-of-this-world pay targets are as damaging as they are distant as.ft.com/r/3beb41c7-1... via @financialtimes
- Brilliant piece about the women who made London divorce capital of the world - including a telling reference to a "fur-off" in St Petersburg, where some of them allegedly competed to sport the grandest accessory, by @joshspero.ft.com and Suzi Ring @journosooz.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/255a...
- The CEO who carries seven mice in her backpack and why Logitech will provide “the eyes, the ears and the hands of AI”. My FT interview with Hanneke Faber, former high-diver who plunged into tech on.ft.com/48vywuv
- Pilita Clark is rightly irritated and unnerved by the ubiquity of AI “helpers” - but I worry what will happen when they no longer bother declaring themselves on.ft.com/489Do9B @pilitaclark.bsky.social
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- “This whole thing is just a no: a book about business [and] privileged white guys making lots of money” - many publishers rejected the novel Drayton and Mackenzie. I talked to author Alexander Starritt about why fiction only sees the bad in business on.ft.com/3KpKjSX #BBYA25
- A fascinating, nuanced and troubling @financialtimes.com Magazine cover story on the terrible threat and reality of parricide, from @emmavj.bsky.social
- ‘No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.’ Fabulous FT investigation into MBS’s Ozymandian fantasy ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
- From opioids to tainted talc: how Johnson & Johnson lost the trust of consumers - my review of No More Tears, a no-punches-pulled critique of what was once a seemingly unimpeachable brand as.ft.com/r/426aa3e7-c...
- “The worse it is, the better I am” - what Kodak did next and how a ‘blue-collar CEO’ is trying to lead the company along a narrow path back to health. My interview with Jim Continenza #leadership on.ft.com/4hMOFQB
- ‘Surely “vibe working” marks peak vibing?’ - after David Solomon, Jamie Dimon and the Bank of England, @emmavj.bsky.social becomes the latest market influencer to warn of an AI bubble on.ft.com/4q7LO8A
- Are business leaders faking it - and does it matter? My latest column on the danger of authenticity traps and origin stories on.ft.com/4pXvas4 #leadership
- US-China competition, the impact of sanctions, the foundations of artificial intelligence and the pursuit of prosperity - the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year shortlist is out! #BBYA25 on.ft.com/46CtH1C
- Gorgeous, on Sarah Walker’s Radio 3 show just now open.spotify.com/track/6n1X3Q...
- Does HR still need humans? And, if not, what does that mean for the rest of the company? My FT Big Read on the good and bad effects of taking the people out of the personnel department on.ft.com/4oLB13g #AI #HR #HRtech
- “Love it or hate it, you have to work with it” - my analysis of how DHL is persuading its German post and parcel workers to think of AI “not as a superintelligent master, but as an older colleague” on.ft.com/4p6aiyu #AI #management
- Growth, geopolitics and geniuses - plus the first novel to make the business book award cut in 15 years. The longlist for the FT & Schroders Business Book of the Year is out today. Read all about it: on.ft.com/41daGAV #BBYA25 #BusinessBooks
- You can’t always “stack a team with stars and expect them automatically to make magic together” - The FT View on Meta’s high-spending hunt for AI talent on.ft.com/4m4OsJI
- "Not since George HW Bush declared his aversion to broccoli has a US president made such a potentially consequential crop-related communication" - the FT View on how Coca-Cola should respond to Trump's sugar rush on.ft.com/3TNuLJR via @financialtimes
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- Reposted by Andrew HillWorth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
- "If tension and inequality cannot be resolved, then expect more skirmishes in the class war, from Bern to Brooklyn" - the FT View on the eternal dilemma of how - and how much - to tax the super-rich www.ft.com/content/04c7... via @financialtimes.com
- Are lawyers still the right people to lead lawyers? My column on why, in a fast-changing world, law firms should widen their search for leaders on.ft.com/45EG3Y8
- My summer business book reading list on.ft.com/3TpzEIP #BusinessBooks
- Charles Handy’s “final breaths of wisdom” - my FT review of the late management thinker’s last book on.ft.com/4l9TJir
- “With the help of generative AI, ‘thought leadership’ is now a roaring, malodorous, torrent” - my latest column on.ft.com/4dONcHq
- The AI-generated summer reading list of non existent titles and how it made it into print. A catalogue of errors and optimistic assumption about who writes, edits and checks copy in a hollowed out media industry
- Energy, charisma, and mastery of the rules of power - my Financial Times Weekend essay on Trump’s leadership style and its potentially fatal flaws on.ft.com/3SG8MUA
- Could Trump's trade wars bring "newfound appreciation of the benefits of economic interdependence and connectivity"? @benchu.bsky.social & I discuss (de)globalisation in this bonus episode of the Economics Show, about his timely new book Exile Economics www.ft.com/content/f272...
- “History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.” Surprisingly fascinating obit of David Souter, ascetic, enigmatic, intellectual Supreme Court justice www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up” - the FT View on the pitfalls of over hasty business deregulation and the uncertain future of the US audit watchdog on.ft.com/3EFgNG9
- “Among Buffett’s most devoted followers, his departure is comparable to the recent death of Pope Francis.” What is his legacy and what comes next? A little Sunday Buffettology from me on.ft.com/4m1Htl7
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