When you have a tool that can reason, analyze, synthesize, generate ideas, and automate tasks, it’s tempting to point it at a problem and start redesigning things. I see this happening with work. There’s a…
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Remember When
Remember when… …people used to send emails? …we carried phones around in our pockets? …people asked phones and computers for advice instead of other people? …colleges were places you went to get an education? …people…
When AI Moves Faster Than the Intent
An architect described a design intent to an AI system. A word got misread in the transcription and it wasn’t caught. The building that came out the other side wasn’t wrong exactly. It was just…
Self-Awareness Is Not a Soft Skill
Research from the National Institutes of Health suggests only 10 to 15 percent of people are genuinely self-aware. Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist who has studied self-awareness extensively, puts the number even lower — her…
The Conversation Most People Never Get
I stopped at a Starbucks on a road trip and ended up in a conversation with a guy who had just gotten his first job after a stretch of homelessness. I don’t remember exactly how…
The Lifespan of Skills
There was a time when learning a skill meant having it for a career. You trained, you practiced, you got good, and that goodness compounded over decades. The investment paid off because the environment held…