EFFECTIVE is a best-seller! Huzzah for non-boring business books.

Autocorrect on my phone just changed “I” to “Ai” for me, and that’s a little on the nose

People always ask for examples of constructive business practices

Yes I’m still watching these

‘Melissophobia’ is a fear of bees. ‘Mel’ is Latin for “honey.” The name, ‘Melissa,’ comes from the Greek word for “honeybee.” In Greek mythology, Melissa was a nymph who fed the infant Zeus honey instead of milk. Later, the gods turned her into a bee (spoiler alert).

What really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity. It’s ego. Our new data: Ordering people in full-time is a power & status move. Bosses want to be worshiped at the office altar. Policies shouldn’t be vanity projects. Hybrid is better for people & performance.

The open-plan office is a great example of optimisation via John Cleese

how it feels to keep up with ai news nitter.net/cosyposter/status/2066…

I wonder if any medieval peasants stayed awake at night replaying awkward conversations Just lying there in the dark thinking, “I was weird at the well”

The comparision between redesigning factory floors for electricity and knowledge work for AI has come up often this month so why not read the original source of the comparison, Computer and Dynamo by Paul David in 1989. (Not surprisngly, gwern has it online and it is worth reading.)

Anytime I save a PDF, I often think about that lady who pointed out how insane it is that the easiest way to create one is by lying to your computer and telling it you are about to print something.

Congrats to the New York Knicks, from Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally

True - and - the reality is that most work is far more “messy” than the leaders supervising it understand.

Exactly! Technology is neutral to positive…how we integrate into work it is what goes wrong…(and what we could make go right, if we got it together)

Wu-Tang Clan will perform at Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals Game 4 halftime show trib.al/Us0XkNT

Wemby is like AI's impact on the labor market It feels inevitable but it's not happening quite yet

Yup, if eliciting tacit knowledge was easy, organizations would have done it eons ago.

I feel this way about everything there was a whole surge of apps and websites and companies and experiences that were basically only good because the people running them didn’t understand how expensive it was to provide something good

The CEO of Goldman Sachs is taking the other side on the pessimistic takes on AI and jobs. If you looked at what work looked like a few decades ago and saw how much faster everything is or easier it is to produce the same thing as before - even before AI - you’d certainly have been convinced there’d be no jobs left. What happens is we constantly just demand more from everything. Instead of automating a task and delivering the same value proposition, but cheaper, we just expect more from the overall product or service. Because some players in the market decides to do more with the automation, and it raises everyone’s expectations. So those that don’t respond can’t compete. We get more financial analysis from analysts. We get much more comprehensive legal advice. We get more tailored financial services offerings. We get better software in niches we never thought we could automate. Our healthcare providers offer more tests and deeper medical advice. This just goes on and on. When you move from believing the world is static and you’ll have a better view of how jobs evolve due to AI.