Humans In The Loop
What it means to be human in an AI-built world
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Humans In The Loop
When someone acts in a surprising way, we can begin to understand by wondering what they might be afraid of.
When in doubt, look for the fear
we tend to procrastinate on tasks that bring up difficult emotions, like fear, pressure, or self-doubt.
Casey Rosengren • Hack Your Focus With Body Doubling
To be lost is to be human
Feeling lost is a fundamental part of the human experience, a feeling that traces back to the dawn of history.
Feeling lost is a fundamental part of the human experience, a feeling that traces back to the dawn of history.
Steven Schlafman • The Journey Through Lostness: From Disorientation to Discovery
“ resisting the pull to work endless hours is as much about keeping ourselves able to sustainably do the work [...] as it is about leaving space in life for other sources of fulfillment.”
Guardrails on the work day — on the work week! — make it possible for you to do the work for longer . Not longer hours, but, like, longer in life . It makes passi... See more
Guardrails on the work day — on the work week! — make it possible for you to do the work for longer . Not longer hours, but, like, longer in life . It makes passi... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • When Your Profession is On Fire
Our career decisions are more reversible than we think
Humans suffer from what psychologists call the end of history illusion. We tend to understand that we’ve undergone significant personal growth and changes in taste to bring us to the present moment, but we discount the fact that we’ll change in the future.
The end of history illusion is worth k... See more
Humans suffer from what psychologists call the end of history illusion. We tend to understand that we’ve undergone significant personal growth and changes in taste to bring us to the present moment, but we discount the fact that we’ll change in the future.
The end of history illusion is worth k... See more
Simone Stolzoff • In Praise of the Meandering Career
It’s time we rebuild the rhythms of our organizations around the substantive bits instead of the knee-jerk ones. What happened to virtues like discipline, contemplation, care, and reflection in our work lives?
Brie Wolfson • Good Cogs and Their Tools
We’re not just bits of intelligence bouncing through the world. We have complicated emotions, and nuanced and unspoken social hierarchies. We act irrationally and pursue goals that may not be in our best interests. We don’t exist within the clean confines of an operating system or a laboratory—we act and react in a highly variable world. Creating a... See more