If you’re an expert in your field and believe writing a book is your ticket to greater recognition and opportunity, you might want to rethink that strategy. I’m seeing more and more people announcing that they are writing a book but I’d argue that books alone are losing their power as a signal of expertise.
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The people who thrive in an AI world may be the ones who still care to pet the rabbit. Silly as it sounds, stay with me a minute. There’s a lot of talk still about which jobs AI will take and which jobs will be left for humans. As if we’re dividing up the work
The talk now is of hybrid human-AI workflows. This may help get work done (faster) but I’d argue it won’t help make work different (better). Innovation comes from the exchange of lived experiences. And one “co-worker” in this equation doesn’t live.
AI-Human Work won’t improve work Read More »
When AI agents enter a workflow, they also entering a complex web of tacit rules, relationships, permissions, and trust. So the moment an agent can initiate work across a team, adoption isn’t just a technology decision anymore, it’s an organizational design one.
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As a former history teacher I keep an eye out for lessons it teaches about today. The ATM & Bank teller one spoke to upskilling/reskilling due to automation. Toll booth operators was pretty clearly job elimination. But this story of the Longshoremen and containerization is a pretty solid analogy (see link in comments), and lesson
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