Where We Are Headed - Predictions about how AI will change work.
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Tactical work in the age of layoffs - Once the company drops all the work/life balance stuff in favor of work harder or get fired, shift to mild malicious compliance. // “If your company is putting pressure on you to ship more, one solution is to spend less time on testing/refactoring/glue work."
Consumers React To Tariffs With Concern And Caution - “4% of Democrats support the tariffs, and 26% of Republicans oppose them.” // Also, anecdotes of what people plan to do to deal with price increases.
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem - Well, at least we know the robots have great taste, having been built with “multiple works by Joan Didion translated into several languages.” // “The White Album” is one of the great essays. Even her packing list is one of the top five lit-sticals ever. // Also, I mean, yeah, too bad the AI magic relies copyright violation.
The Product Engineer - “If you build Enterprise Software, you need product managers.” // If consumer, you need developers who use the product.
A Conversation Algorithm I Cribbed From Clinical Psychologists - What does “open ended question” even mean? Here’s some examples, and a conversational framework built around it. This also probably good for sales and marketing.
The good times in tech are over - ”If you were an engineer who loved working on your company’s open-source libraries, it’s probably sensible to confront the fact that the company never really cared about it that much.”