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Knowledge work sometimes gets this mystical quality about it. Sure, knowledge workers don’t produce widgets, they produce information or something.

If feedback is slow in coming for your position, here is an interesting exercise to try.

You don’t know when your moment in the spotlight will come. Or if it will come at all. But when it does come, you need to be ready.

We’re at an interesting moment culturally. The notion of “AI” covers a very wide range of technological capabilities as well as projections for the future. In a sense, this isn’t new.

Today I was going to write a short post about the phrase “the whole is more than the sum of its parts.” However, when I went to look it up, I learned that it is actually a misquote! It’s a mashup of two quotes.

Imagine: you are writing something in Word (or Google Docs). Doesn’t really matter what. In your open window, you receive a popup:

In a situation with a high probability of failure (losing to the Knicks and being eliminated from the playoffs), Sixers guard Tyrese Maxey took a low probability shot.

Ten years from now… Will OpenAI be a major force in the economy? I’m not sure. Will Google be the go-to firm for AI (however AI is defined in the future)? Maybe.

Pretty soon, we may see hierarchical decision fatigue with regards to AI.

One of my favorite parts of athletics is the speed at which you receive feedback. The last pitch was either a strike or a ball. You hit it or you missed. Even in training, you can immediately see whether you caught the last pass or hit your lifting target. There is also the slightly slower feedback of muscle soreness after athletic activity. This tells you that you “did something.”