“In our recent survey of 1,400 U.S.-based employees, 76% of executives reported that their employees feel enthusiastic about AI adoption in their organization. But the view from the bottom up is less sunny: Just 31% of individual contributors expressed enthusiasm about adopting AI. That means leaders are more than two times off the mark.” And: “This disconnect is a symptom of a broader executive blind spot: They’re not especially attuned to what employees think, and they don’t realize it.
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How to write in LinkedIn-style
“It involves posing a provocative question, sharing a vulnerability that you have learnt from (ideally losing your job, pet or parent), using an emoji at the start of each paragraph, and the paragraphs being absurdly short.”
🔗 It pays to speak fluent LinkedIn — if you can crack the bro code
NotebookML overview and uses
This is a good overview. Other than the podcast generator…I still don’t get it enough to want to use it. Maybe I don’t realize how much I need flash cards and infographics? It feels like my kids would find a lot of use for school. A professor in a box? Maybe it would be good for D&D adventure planning? Like load up the entire Rime of the Frostmaiden and just have it prep the shit out of it for you?
In a UI, label things what they are, not your unique, product centric (often brand/marketing) name for it.
“Internet handle” is a good name for your personal domain name.
A whole bunch of security advice for individuals, more plain-spoken than jargon.
Instructive thoughts on web design.
Digital Transformation Fatigue, and how to get over it - DOGE case study
This is the story of most large IT transformation/modernization efforts. Once the executives that started it leaves, it stops. Then a new one comes in that does almost the opposite. Put all your apps in the cloud, bring all your apps on-premises.
Tide goes out, tide comes in.
That pattern of course fuels staff “modernization fatigue” where they just ignore all the slides in Q1 and get on with their lives.
Google has many overwhelming advantages. It has vast access to data, access to customers, access to capital and talent. It has TPUs. It has tons of places to take advantage of what it creates. It has the trust of customers, I’ve basically accepted that if Google turns on me my digital life gets rooted. By all rights they should win big.
On the other hand, Google is in many ways a deeply dysfunctional corporation that makes everything inefficient and miserable, and it also has extreme levels of risk aversion on both legal and reputational grounds and a lot of existing business to protect, and lacks the ability to move like a startup. The problems run deep.