Rob Browton · Occupational psychologist

Helping professionals understand and adjust to the new world of AI-supported work.

I’m an occupational psychologist with twenty years in enterprise employee listening, organisational development, and leadership facilitation. My focus now is the shift to AI-supported work — turning something abstract and fast-moving into something professionals and teams can reason about, plan for, and act on.

The work here spans three layers: products for professionals adjusting to AI, long-form interactive explorations of the forces shaping work and life, and real-time data experiments built for curiosity.

Products

Tools and guides for professionals navigating AI-supported work.

thelateshift

The Late Shift

A professional's guide to running autonomous AI agents.

A book-length guide plus a learning platform — academy, guided first-project, 90-day command centre, action planner, and a readiness assessment. For knowledge workers who want to build, not just read about it.

  • React
  • Vite
  • Tailwind
  • Vitest
  • Framer Motion
careerprint

CareerPrint

Upload your LinkedIn export, get a scrollable dossier of your career.

A browser-based intelligence platform that turns your LinkedIn, Facebook, or X export into a 5-chapter dossier — hexagon score, industry wheel, Mercator career map, seasonal heatmaps. Runs entirely client-side; your data never leaves the browser.

  • React
  • Vite
  • pnpm workspace
  • JSZip
  • hand-crafted SVG

Interactive explorations

Long-form interactive work on psychology, organisations, and society.

dataexplorations

Data Explorations

Scrollytelling explorations of the forces shaping society.

13 deep-dive interactive pieces pairing scholarly narrative with D3 and Framer Motion — the phone-based childhood, 140 years of organizational thinking, 2,500 years of ideas about the good life.

  • Next.js
  • React 19
  • D3
  • Framer Motion
  • TypeScript

Experiments

Real-time Earth-observation dashboards — side practice in data viz.

living-planet

Living Planet

A plugin-based dashboard hub for real-time Earth-observation visualizations.

Umbrella framework that composes five real-time dashboards under one cohesive interface. VizPlugin interface + shared MapShell/FilterBar/KpiGrid primitives extracted into @livingplanet/framework.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • MapLibre GL
  • pnpm workspace
wildfire

Wildfire

Live wildfire hotspots from NASA FIRMS with FRP intensity encoding.

Parses both VIIRS and MODIS satellite feeds, dedupes by grid cell, encodes fire radiative power as color + size, and lets you play back fire spread day by day.

  • React 19
  • MapLibre GL 5
  • NASA FIRMS
  • ESLint
airquality

Air Quality

Where is the air dangerous right now?

Live OpenAQ sensor feed, EPA-breakpoint AQI for PM2.5/PM10/O3/NO2, worst-affected cities panel. Dark CARTO basemap with health-category color coding.

  • React
  • MapLibre GL
  • OpenAQ
  • Vitest
lightning

Lightning

Global lightning strikes — live, with a physically-grounded simulation fallback.

Blitzortung WebSocket feed with auto-reconnect, plus a custom simulation engine modelling 16 real-world storm cells with Box-Muller Gaussian scatter when the live feed fails.

  • React
  • MapLibre GL
  • Blitzortung WebSocket
  • Vitest
oceanwatch

Ocean Watch

Global shipping on 20 real shipping lanes, rendered with playback.

~420 procedurally-generated vessels across 20 real shipping lanes, filterable by type/speed/flag, with a 1–24h playback scrubber and a speed-weighted heatmap.

  • React
  • MapLibre GL
  • procedural generation