Why I'm leaving Substack and what I'm building next
After a year writing here, The Human Stack is moving. Everything I make, plus genuinely useful free resources I've curated from the likes of IBM and Anthropic, now lives in one place at thehumanco.org
Hi all,
A heads-up about where The Human Stack is going, and what it means for your subscription.
I’ve wanted to build something like this for years: a genuinely useful set of AI resources, the kind I wished existed when I was first trying to work this out. Not a funnel, not a lead magnet, just good things in one place that anyone can use. That’s what I’ve spent the past while putting together, and from now on it lives at thehumanco.org.
I’m calling it the AI Resource Hub.
By way of brief context, I make a lot of things. I follow whatever I’m curious about, and over the last year that’s turned into a newsletter, essays, prompt packs, tools, case studies and more. The trouble was that all of it lived in six different places, and none of it added up while it was scattered. So I’ve brought it together, and added the best free explainers I could find from people who teach this better than anyone.
A flavour of what’s in there, all free, no sign-up, no paywall:
Two short courses. “AI Fluency”, built around Anthropic’s framework, on how to actually work well with AI; and “AI Agents”, built around IBM’s explainers, on what agentic AI means for a team. Each pairs the videos with my notes on what it means at work.
News, the newest part: clear write-ups of the things that matter, like Anthropic pulling its top models over a US export order, and the UK’s £200m AI adoption push.
Essays, where I argue about where this is heading: “The Decline of the Knowledge Worker”, “Can AI Make HR More Human?”, “The Age of Agentic AI”.
Skill guides, the practical how-tos: building a working prototype with no code, using AI on your annual performance review, auditing which parts of your job are actually safe.
Tools and prompt packs: the Learning ROI Calculator, the AI Adoption Health Check, and prompt packs for managers, small businesses and L&D teams.
All of it free, with nothing gated behind an email wall. My only ask is that if you find anything useful share it will a colleague or a friend.
The point of one roof is that the pieces start to add up. A post-mortem leads into a prompt pack, which becomes a skill guide, which shapes the next bit of work. The writing is the same writing wherever you read it: AI rarely fails on the technology, it stalls on the human side. It just does more when it sits next to the work it came from.
What’s changing:
The Human Stack’s last post here is 25 June.
The writing continues from the hub, same weekly rhythm, same voice, searchable now.
From now on, whenever I add something new to the hub, a piece, a tool, a course, you’ll hear about it. Not just the weekly writing, but everything new as it lands.
A couple of things stay put. I have a weekly build journal named Seven Percent on LinkedIn, and and eLearning course creation tool Co.llab which I’m currently developing.
I also run an AI Training Consultancy - thehumanco.org - that embeds AI within organisations by teaching people on how to use AI well. If that’s something you’d like to know more about email me at hello@thehumanco.org
Substack has been a good place to write and I’m grateful for the year here. Leaving isn’t a complaint about the platform. It’s that the writing belongs next to everything else, and that’s the one thing Substack can’t host.
You don’t need to do anything. I’m bringing your subscription across to the new home, so the writing keeps arriving just as it does now, and you’ll be first to know when something new lands on the hub. If you’d rather not come along, no hard feelings. Unsubscribe whenever you like and that’s that.
Thank you for reading this past year.
Last post here lands on 25 June. See you on the other side.
Paul