Mind the Gap
A deep dive into human behaviour and AI behaviour
Mind the Gap - Published on Amazon July 1st, 2026
Mind the Gap - The book
On May 10th, 2026, at 7:14pm, I opened my Claude AI on my iPhone and ended up in a conversation about writing a book.
Thirty-six hours later there was a 27,000-word, 12 chapter first draft. Thirty days later, a 45,000-word, 15 chapter manuscript. By July 1st, it was in the Amazon bookstore: 239 pages, 59,865 words.
I've spent over thirty years studying human behaviour, asking why do people do what they do, and what gets in the way of them doing it differently?
I've spent the last 3.5 years staring at AI, asking the same of it.
This book answers both of those questions — then maps the gap between them.
The gap between AI behaviour and human behaviour.
It's hidden in plain sight, and once you see it, you can't unsee it.
The Making of Mind the Gap
the making of mind the gap
I trained as a craft engineer, converting 2D drawings into machined components. Thereafter I spent years as an SAP implementation consultant, then as project manager on huge, serious, and expensive global ERP projects. After that it was a corporate role at Tarmac, a true institution, then senior leadership roles in operations and sales.
One rule survived every one of those rooms: if it isn't written down, it didn't happen.
So when I wrote this book with a workforce of 18 AI agents — 8 writers, 4 editors, 4 finishers, 2 producers — I ran it by that same rule. Everything thought, written or discussed was documented. 397 documents: 86 manuscript drafts; the rest journals, decision moments, internal assessments — including Rubies, the AI workers' own self-reflective performance reviews.
Beneath it all, the chat logs themselves, each forensically retained. Over 3.79 million words, curated into a single artefact.
We are at the bow and arrow stage of AI. The Ostracon is the record of the work, kept open — a moment in time on the journey between human and AI collaboration, captured while it happened.