The critique acknowledges the flaws in a HBR study about “workslop” while embracing the term itself.
“Our parenting hack of the year so far is having cut vegetables ready at the table when our kids get home from school. The percentage of vegetables consumed is up like 10x” Good tokens 2025-09-26
Feeding the hungry robot with your video content
Doing SEO for the LLMs so that your content can be found.
🔗 AEO for YouTube: How to Get Your Videos Cited by ChatGPT
monetization efforts
Sources say that Simo has recently been meeting with potential candidates, including some of her former Facebook colleagues, to lead a new team that will be tasked with bringing ads to ChatGPT. The role will oversee all monetization efforts across OpenAI, including subscriptions.
🔗 OpenAI is looking for a head of ads for ChatGPT
Supporting the executive
This is also what it’s like to work in corporate strategy and supporting the executive suite. It feels like a lot of time wasted when someone could have been coming up with fixes instead of silo-hopping. That said: the point of a system is what it does. So, coordinating with the giant organization is often the goal, not so much the actual actions taken. Also in the “that said” category: it takes a lot of effort to make a change, but once that change is in place, the power of the giant organization has a huge impact.
1953–1961
I always forget that Nixon was a vice president, and I’m still shocked every time I’m reminded of that.
Auto Mix is Good
I thought I’d dislike the new Auto Mix song transition in Apple Music. But, I actually like it. It does, indeed, make it feel more “radio” and, thus, lively and of the human world instead of isolated headphones desk-troglodyte.
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 “shopping” that i’ve built a habit of opening any time i want something i see online”
🤖 Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA Report Declares AI the New Developer Baseline
AI has shifted from a helpful add-on to the bedrock of modern software engineering, according to Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA Report. While nearly all developers now use AI, trust remains tentative, and the real differentiator lies in how organizations structure their practices and platforms to manage speed without chaos.
Summarized by AI.
Source summarized:
AI has the New Baseline: What Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA Report Means for Developers – ADTmag
🤖 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: AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs.
Key Points Developer productivity gains from generative AI average just 10–15% at most, often offset by the time spent checking AI’s mistakes.