Tag: productivity
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my “shopping” note keeps me from buying dumb shit all the time – Instead of actually impulse buying, put it on a list to get that dopamine hit. // “for the past year and a half i have been keeping a plain note (it started as an apple note but now i use obsidian) titled…
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🤖 Bain Says GenAI Coding Hype Falls Flat Without Full Software Lifecycle Rethink
Generative AI stormed into software development promising a coding revolution, but so far, it’s making developers only marginally faster—and in some cases, slower. Bain & Company’s Technology Report 2025 argues that real productivity gains will require a wholesale reinvention of the entire development lifecycle, not just sprinkling AI on coding tasks. AI generated summary of:…
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So many links, so many finds
PaaS Talk We’re trying to amp up more technical explanations and demos of why Tanzu Platform/Cloud Foundry are great. Here is a little front-runner for a demo I’m going to extract from this same talk. Relative to your interests I didn’t take the time to organize these by topic. Apologies and kisses. UK government productivity…
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🤖 We’re Optimizing Ourselves Into Oblivion
This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: Our obsession with efficiency is costing us our humanity. Modern life is obsessed with speed, convenience, and frictionless efficiency, but in the process, we’re eroding the small, slow pleasures that make life meaningful. The piece argues that embracing inconvenience—commutes, cooking, wandering—restores humanity in a world of one-click…
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UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/1… ‘The main uses were “transcribing or summarising a meeting”, “writing an email”, and “summarising written communications”. The bot didn’t do so well on anything more complicated.’
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Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption – 🤖: “Enterprise deployment via Anthropic’s API exposes a different facet: businesses adopt AI programmatically to automate. 77% of API usage is automation-dominant, particularly in coding, debugging, office administration, and recruitment. Surprisingly, firms are not especially price-sensitive; higher-cost tasks see higher adoption if they deliver…
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Slowing Down – How to avoid burnout as you get more successful at life.
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The Top AI Tool for Devs Isn’t GitHub Copilot, New Report Finds – “LeadDev’s respondents, too, mostly believe that AI has made them more productive, with only 5% saying there was no change and 10% saying it was making them less productive. But 26% also said that they weren’t sure or didn’t know, which, as…
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“We’re gonna show, the young people, how to have an effective 30 minute meeting.”
Perfect Foods Perfect foods: traditional Tex-Mex refried beans; bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast taco; pad thai with tofu; instant ramen noodles; Dutch fries with mayonnaise; sharp cheddar cheese; salted butter (aka, European butter); peanut butter, chunky; HEB tortillas; kibbling; coffee; queso with all the stuff in it; (OK, OK: all of Tex-Mex); USDA steak, cooked…
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How to Fix Your Context – Lots to digest in here.
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Stop pontificating about other people losing their jobs to AI and worry about your own job – More executives need to use AI for a month straight. This will both de-hype enterprise magical thinking and help us come up with more uses that accrue value to the organization. In the meantime, most of the value…
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Incremental AI is better than civilization changing AI
Incremental AI For every AI skeptic and alarmist, there are ten AI dreamers convinced AI will change civilization. In the business world, this fuels high valuations and premature optimization through layoffs or sweeping business changes. Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, listed out all sorts of AI things Amazon is doing. To me, the list suggests AI…
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UK govt study: Copilot AI saved workers 26 minutes a day – Well, that’s one way to do the ROI dance. // “And even using the more modest projected time savings of 4.59 days per employee per year, the £19 per employee per month cost of a Microsoft Copilot Pro subscription in the UK appears…
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Google Study: 65% of Developer Time Wasted Without Platforms – Better get a platform. // ‘Intriguingly, 86% of the survey’s respondents also said they believe that “platform engineering is essential to realizing the full business value of AI. ” // “At the same time, a vast majority of companies view AI as a catalyst for…
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The luxury of saying no. – “Most people don’t get to say no. Not really. They’re not debating whether to use AI on principle. They’re trying to figure out how to keep their job without surrendering their judgment or drowning in tasks that keep multiplying while headcount shrinks. For most people, using an LLM isn’t…
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Dark Leisure – ”in many orgs, there is too little incentive to pass on these productivity gains by telling your manager: “i found this neat tool that lets me do 8h of work in 3h! give me more work!”” // Some “real workers of the world unite” vibes.
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What is “O-Ring Theory”?
One bad apple ruins the bunch. The O-Ring Theory, proposed by economist Michael Kremer in 1993, describes how small failures in complex, interdependent tasks can lead to major breakdowns. Named after the Challenger disaster, where a faulty O-ring caused the shuttle’s destruction, this model applies to production, labor markets, and economic development. In an O-ring…
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Measuring Productivity: All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful – ”Measure Speed, Ease, and Quality Different facets of productivity warrant the use of different metrics. We typically think of productivity as a balance among speed, ease, and quality.”
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The Hidden Toll of Meeting Hangovers – Hell is other people: “In our survey, more than 90% of respondents said they experienced meeting hangovers at least occasionally. More than half said these hangovers negatively impacted their workflow or productivity, while 47% reported feeling less engaged with their work. These effects often resulted from rumination, or…
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