q2 musings
in the age of algorithms, a question to ponder (h/t yancey strickler)
once the algorithms know you, how do you break those things? Let's say you go down the rabbit hole. How the fuck do you get out? How do you get out and reorient yourself as a different type of person? That's a very real question for me lately. I feel... See more
As a recent article in Slate put it, “Unless organizations develop clear strategies, A.I. in the workplace becomes a bull in a china shop—with those who never even wanted it tasked with cleaning up the mess.”
Rachel Karten • Does your boss have AI brain?
Outsourced gut instinct
So much of good marketing is instincts. Seeing the signs before anyone else. Translating a spark into a smart campaign. Knowing the line between brilliance and brash. With AI, we’re watching decision makers run big ideas through a machine that finds the median.
So much of good marketing is instincts. Seeing the signs before anyone else. Translating a spark into a smart campaign. Knowing the line between brilliance and brash. With AI, we’re watching decision makers run big ideas through a machine that finds the median.
Rachel Karten • Does your boss have AI brain?
One person shared, “It validates to me how absolutely unqualified and inept these people in C-suite positions are that they need a machine/robot to validate their opinions because they have no real POV and strategy themselves. They so desperately want to always be the right answer in the room. To have a machine that can’t argue back and essentially... See more
Rachel Karten • Does your boss have AI brain?
Even if the feedback wasn’t what you wanted to hear, it came from a place of assumed expertise. Now it feels like AI is the final approver.
Not only is leadership using AI in their own work, but they are forcing employees to use it as well. The problem is that many of the tasks that bosses are asking their team to use AI for are the exact ones that... See more
Not only is leadership using AI in their own work, but they are forcing employees to use it as well. The problem is that many of the tasks that bosses are asking their team to use AI for are the exact ones that... See more
Rachel Karten • Does your boss have AI brain?
Been watching K-Pop Demon Hunters on repeat and noticed how it brilliantly exposes the MASKS of toxic masculinity we perform to feel worthy or desirable, especially in spaces that demand constant performance.
The Saja boys each embody one of these destructive patterns - swipe through to see how Abby, Romance, Baby, and... See more
instagram.com... See moreIt's a distinction that's shaped Lonely Planet's recent thinking too, particularly with Artifact, a new zine that deliberately "doesn't exist to tell you where to go" - "it's more about reminding you why you travel in the first place".
Drawing on the earliest, stripped-back editions of the Lonely Planet guides, Artifact is a deliberately unhurried
Again, it’s about first principles.