Facts are friends
Work is changing
Change often arrives quietly, then suddenly becomes ordinary. The preparation window matters.
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#FactsAreFriends
Understanding what AI means for your life - without the fear or the hype.
I am Quentin Solt - a solicitor, father and adviser who has spent forty years helping businesses through change. AI is quietly rearranging work, law and daily life. Clear sight gives us the best chance of meeting that change with hope.
Find your way in
Start where the subject is most immediate for you.
Understand the change
How AI is quietly rearranging ordinary work and daily life.
The Good Enough theory
How client sufficiency changes the economic boundary around professional work.
The legal profession
A structural view of knowledge, credentials and judgement.
For young people
Direction, habits and people worth building before you need them.
What we can do together
Personal agency and the larger choices that shape shared abundance.
Commercial Review
A defined commercial map for selected straightforward agreements before a larger decision.
The argument in one view
Three claims, one connected argument.
Abundance is possible
AI could free time and raise capacity. The outcome depends on choices made by people and institutions.
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The gains must be shared
Security, education and fair funding are ways of making abundance a public good.
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What is happening now
Selected reading
Short film
See the three asks
Writing, watching and acting in public.
Purpose is the instrument of growth
Work should serve a life worth living. This essay explores the part purpose plays when growth and human value begin to pull apart.
Read on SubstackWhatever you call it - your job, career, your calling
A short reflection on the relationship between work, worth and what comes next.
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A public declaration for a serious national plan
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Why facts are friends
“You cannot prepare for what you refuse to look at.”
Clear sight first.
The phrase came from Wayne Fox, a mentor of mine. It has become the rule behind this project: face what is actually happening, including the parts that are uncomfortable, and refuse both softening and exaggeration.
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The deeper rooms.
Explainer
Start here
A clear account of the pace and shape of change.
TheoryAI Good Enough
Client sufficiency, judgement, accountability and the moving boundary of work.
Case studyThe legal profession
Knowledge, credentials and judgement under different pressures.
DirectionFor young people
Useful habits for a changing world of work.
AgencyWhat you can do
Personal preparation and the public policy case.
ForthcomingThe book
Chocolate, Fear and Freedom, now being written.
Reading and watchingJournal
Selected essays, notes, video and debate.
A human close
Love is the answer to fear, not the other way round.
I am a Christian, and have tried to write in a way that does not require you to share that faith. I have also been wrong before - about technology and about people. This is an attempt to think out loud, in good company, about something that matters to all of us.