Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision - Dell has always been the “configure exactly what you want” PC dealer. Enterprises can then setup their own “standard configurations” to force on employees. Here, they’re trying to make opinionated laptops (like Apple).

How Do You Create AI Advantage? - You’re going to need access to all that data you have. Historically, this is a very difficult problem in large enterprises and is rarely solved well. For example, are you satisfied with your CRM? For all your enterprise AI hopes and dreams, focus on that first. // “Develop your firm’s knowledge capacity by inventorying your knowledge assets; make sure that you have a plan to build proprietary advantage with the knowledge you’ve captured, and begin the process of capturing tacit knowledge to sustain that advantage.” // Related data wrangling commentary.

Productivity “hacks” don’t work. These do. - If you don’t have a to do list and use your calendar, start with that and ignore all other productivity improvement advice.

Tips on Using LLMs (AI) Effectively for Text - “If you take away one thing from this, it’s that asking the LLM things, rather than using it to generate copy and paste text, is almost always a better use case."

Hitting OKRs vs Doing Your Job - “OKRs say what is different this quarter, what we’re changing, and what we’re trying to figure out.” // Also, why OKRs work better in marketing than in product.

They squandered the holy grail - “Writing Tools is basically useless for me. It’s just a way to get a slightly worse version of what I already have the ability to make myself better."

Big Tech is pushing ‘AI agents.’ They’ll need intimate access to your data. - (1) The next big bump in AI productivity and change will come when enterprises give it access to all the data, (2) historically, access to data for the people who need it is a huge bottleneck, (3) give the advertising tech (Google, Facebook, etc.) access to all your personal data…what could go wrong?!

How to break free from your “toxic productivity” cycle - “if you’re not able to carve out even 20 minutes for yourself, then something needs to change in your life.” // Tools that find the priorities are hard: “We hear a lot about how to optimize for productivity, but what we don’t have is the emotional awareness and emotional intelligence around why we pursue the things we pursue."

Why are corporations cutting managers? - “a large share of a company’s work force does not produce widgets. Instead, they produce organizational capital.” // Also, what if employee (individual contributor) productivity meant less managers?

Public Domain Day 2025 | Duke University School of Law - “The literary highlights from 1929 include The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, and A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf."