Slowing Down - How to avoid burnout as you get more successful at life.

Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise apps will feature AI agents by 2026 - “Enterprise applications are entering a new phase of automation, with Gartner forecasting that 40 percent of them will include task-specific AI agents by 2026 – up from less than 5 percent today.” And: “By 2035, the firm predicts, agentic AI will account for nearly $450 billion in enterprise software revenue, or 30 percent of the market.” // Some predictions about broad uses as well. The uses are mostly (all?) the idea of having an assistant in your tasks, yes, a “copilot."

School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study - Update on the young people and those damn video games. // “There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents. The findings do not provide evidence to support the use of school policies that prohibit phone use during the school day in their current form, and indicate that these policies require further development.” // See Tyler Cowen’s disclaimer. // I mean, it could be one of those “phones don’t ruin kids lives, kids using phones to ruin their lives ruins their lives” situations.

How To Build Agentic AI That Ships - The New Stack - “Ninety-five percent of AI initiatives should be expected to fail as long as we ignore these pitfalls: Models are generic. Enterprises are unique. Ideal use cases aren’t flashy. Coordination across teams is hard.” // Lots of other good executive think too, especially being blind to how complex the overall system is w/r/t dependencies. // Also notable is that, technology aside, these are all the concerns of “digital transformation."

Anthropic lets Claude remember previous interactions to streamline work - Including, and using, past chats in your current chat. Always a great, helpful feature.

macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica review - Check out the extended overview of the new Spotlight features/changes if you’re into launchers.

Most Work is Translation - by Aparna Chennapragada - ACD - This is a great metaphor: ”To me, LLMs have the potential to be the Babel fish of work, the little creature from Hitchhiker’s Guide that instantly translates whatever goes into your ear. Except here, it’s not speech alone. It’s papers into briefs, meetings into memos, data into charts, ideas into roadmaps etc.” // So much of knowledge work figuring out what the fuck people are saying and what you should do. And, on the other end, figuring out how tell people that. Using GenAI to de-BS business talk, and hopefully generate more actionable (hah!) talk would be great.

🤖 What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. – OpenAI’s first usage study reveals ChatGPT’s massive growth, demographic shifts, and main use cases. // More concise list of uses here. //

And, more from El Reg, including the conclusion from the paper:

The paper concludes “users currently appear to derive value from using ChatGPT as an advisor or research assistant, not just a technology that performs job tasks directly” and that the bot “likely improves worker output by providing decision support, which is especially important in knowledge-intensive jobs where productivity is increasing in the quality of decision-making.”

Here is the actual study.

Why CIOs can’t afford another modernization failure in 2026 - ”Gartner estimates that up to 70% of large-scale digital transformation and modernization initiatives fail to deliver their intended outcomes. That number has hovered stubbornly high for years, but the stakes in 2026 are different.”

This is the kind of thing the Internet was made for, with that “one person can do a thing” vibe. Plus, this is the kind of music I go nuts for.