Category: AI
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Ep. 26 A Trauma Based View of the Future of Work
In this episode we examine how the dramatic changes in the world of knowledge work over the past five years can have traumatic effects. Acute Trauma – Life is noticeably different before and after Job Loss, Layoffs, New AI Capabilities Chronic Trauma – Prolonged exposure to a harmful situation Self-doubt, hopelessness, insecurity, fear, negativity about…
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Rules for Cognitive Offloading
You may have seen the recent MIT paper presenting data suggesting that using ChatGPT for your writing causes your cognitive abilities to atrophy from lack of use. So, I thought it was worth thinking a bit about when one might choose to take the trade-off of ease and speed as opposed to writing the painful…
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Emergence of the Second Visible Hand
Capitalism is the driver pushing businesses to endlessly chase efficiency and growth. While it is the current cause casting so much uncertainty on human job prospects, I think that ultimately it will help produce the cure. In a market economy, it is entirely logical for businesses to lower costs and reduce profit. There is no…
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Why Our Language for AI Matters
Describing AI Agents as digital workers who are members of your digital workforce is great marketing. It is also dehumanizing. Analogy is a powerful tool to explain innovation. Referring to something we already know and understand makes it easier to conceptualize novel ideas. There are certainly similarities between tasks currently done by human workers and…
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AI Skills: SPP vs GPP
Determining the skills for the future of work in an AI world is showing up everywhere right now. If you know me, you’ll understand that seeing reading and writing listed as one of the most out-of-focus skills gave me some pause. I’m not suggesting that future knowledge workers will be spending their workdays reading in…
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FOMO, AI, and the Infinite Buffer Problem
I see a lot of people thinking of AI as a solution to avoid missing out on meetings or email responses. While this isn’t necessarily a bad idea, it can be problematic if the time saved just gets spent on more meetings and emails. The challenge is the Infinite Buffer Problem: in organizations of a…
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The Psychological Impact of AI Notetakers
AI notetaking bots weird me out. Not logically, but emotionally. I appreciate their value and I don’t really worry about them doing anything harmful. Something about the current UI experience where bots join as equivalent to human users causes me to anthropomorphize them more than I would like. What’s this creeper doing sitting silently in…
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The year of the Intelligent Agent starts with you.
Artificial Intelligence is going to change our world. There are many hypotheses on how, but no one really knows. In the meantime, here are some resources that helped me better understand what’s happening and what may be possible. I hope this helps you take agency in your own change and helps you guide your connections…
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Optimize your entire YouTube channel keywords for SEO in a few clicks
In this final video, we pull a bunch of steps together and update an entire YouTube channel’s worth of videos for SEO. Previous Steps: AI and Automation to add YouTube Video Description and Keywords VidIQ Keyword Automation Part1 Automating YouTube Keywords with VidIQ Score Part 2 Tools used: High-Level Steps
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GenAI refused to recommend me books for Black History Month
Me: “what are some good books to read for black history month?” GenAI starts listing some books like it normally would, then…the response got erased and I was left with. GenAI: “Hmm…it looks like I can’t chat about this. Let’s try a different topic.” This was weird and disturbing. I had to double-check what I…