There’s a certain inevitability when working on a project — at some point things might just grind to a halt. This can be due to your own inaction, but it can also be out of your hands: sometimes clients or collaborators just don’t get back to you with something you need to keep the project moving.
We want to live in a world that is built for everyone. From our cities, homes and infrastructures to our political systems, technologies and services, we want human-built environments and systems to be inclusive of everyone. We also want them to reflect our particular place in the world and allow for multiple worldviews and ways of thinking.
A few months ago we came across a blog post that had been doing the rounds: “Stop serving the compliment sandwich,” by management psychology professor and self help author Adam Grant. Since we spend a lot of time thinking about giving and receiving feedback, this was the ultimate clickbait headline for us.
It’s been almost 8 years since we came up with the name Antistatic and slowly started to piece together the processes, clients and projects that make our business what it is today. Antistatic is completely normal in some ways and completely unusual in other ways — not everyone starts a business with their sibling, and not everyone trusts their coworker with their life — but mostly we’re just a small consultancy with our own quirks and priorities.
Since the launch of Chat-GPT in 2019, there has been an onslaught of machine learning-based text and image generators accompanied by so many opinions about the impacts these tools could have on productivity, how we think about work, and even the nature of humanity. Many public and private organisations are incorporating generative AI tools into their workflow, or thinking about how they can get started in 2024.
