Shachaf Rodberg
@shachafrodberg
Shachaf Rodberg
Your apps aren't free, but you – and everything you think and care about – are free for the taking.
Your apps are not free — from the DESK of van Schneider — Edition Nr.228
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how fast can I do this but what should I be doing at all?
The Elevator: The Skill Gap is Closing: Now What?
But an unbounded information landscape is not an unalloyed good. Because social media does not favor accuracy or balance or diversity. It favors clicks. The more engaging and enraging the content, the more clicks it receives.
Scott Galloway • No Mercy / No Malice
Task expansion.
Because AI can fill in gaps in knowledge, workers increasingly stepped into responsibilities that previously belonged to others. Product managers and designers began writing code; researchers took on engineering tasks; and individuals across the organization attempted work they would have outsourced, deferred, or avoided entirely in... See more
Because AI can fill in gaps in knowledge, workers increasingly stepped into responsibilities that previously belonged to others. Product managers and designers began writing code; researchers took on engineering tasks; and individuals across the organization attempted work they would have outsourced, deferred, or avoided entirely in... See more
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
It feels like AI is eating everything right now. The tools are getting faster, the outputs are getting cheaper, and the question of what humans are actually for in the work is getting harder to avoid. I don't think the answer is to out-produce the machines. I think the answer is to be more romantic than they can be.
Be Romantic — Behzod
It’s because there’s a difference between processing information and building knowledge. And there is definitely a difference between borrowing someone else’s summary and developing your own judgment.
That last one matters to me most.
A lot of what I do for work depends on taste and interpretation. I have to decide what is interesting, what is true,... See more
That last one matters to me most.
A lot of what I do for work depends on taste and interpretation. I have to decide what is interesting, what is true,... See more
The central lie behind these programs is that they are meant for artists. They’re not. We don’t need them and using them only hurts us. What our clients really need from us is what the A.I. button cannot and never will be able to give: a human expression in all its flawed, beautiful glory.
