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0:15:06 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Leading right now requires talking about and normalizing the overwhelm people are feeling.
Their wordsThere's a lot of overwhelm that all, you know, manifests. Some of it manifests in burnout, but it's like there is just a lot going on for people right now. And you really can't lead right now without talking about that um and without normalizing that.
0:15:48 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsthe future will be defined by the people that learn not the people that know.
0:16:56 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsBut actually standing still is like the least safe thing you can do. It's basically you're guaranteed to fall behind.
0:20:38 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Engineering is probably one of the areas where jobs have most visibly been transformed by AI.
Their wordsI think engineering is like probably one of the most visceral areas where people's jobs have genuinely transformed.
0:27:01 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsLike as of right now, like there is not a lot of data, although you may have more than I do that says that AI is genuinely taking jobs away.
0:27:15 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsthey are about badly run companies slapping an AI label and getting some share points from that versus saying, "Whoops, we made we hired too many people."
0:28:52 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsBut until we have real evidence, what if we believe that they're not going away? They're just going to reinvent themselves.
0:35:49 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI always think like AI needs the same coaching and training that a human does right it needs context it needs onboarding it needs all of these things
0:36:44 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Part of the AI slop problem is probably people handing off accountability for the work they send.
Their wordsAnd I think part of what's going on with all the slop in the world is people have like shipped accountability.
0:37:38 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsCEOs like shipping a strategy memo that was clearly written by AI that is you role modeling for your organization that it's fine to outsource your thinking and it's fine to outsource your strategy.
0:38:02 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsyou hear all these stories about like companies like counting tokens and having token leaderboards and it's like it brings me back to the days when people were like counting cars in a parking lot and Slack bubbles and lines of code, right? Which we all know is a really bad way to manage people.
0:44:33 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsone of my biggest realizations was that delegating something to a robot is not the same as giving it to a human because you cannot get rid of the oversight, right?
0:47:27 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsit just means literally everyone in the world is a manager now
0:50:56 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI'm a believer that a lot of jobs are going to be created because of this technology
0:53:53 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsyou got to take that stance of I want to be part of designing the future of my profession not protecting the past.
1:00:42 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsLike I think there are some Legos that shouldn't be given away. um that the robots like both like don't deserve and like that we should hold on to.
1:02:01 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd I think things that require trust like that are you know fundamental to relationships like we should not be outsourcing these things to robots
1:05:50 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsYou individually are phenomenal at a set of things. Like do not outsource that. Like you can enable it, you can amplify it to use your data, but don't outsource it to these weird robots that you know are effectively summer interns.
1:11:57 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsit is a slow takeoff and it isn't like the future is next day next next month like it is it's going to take years to really understand what this new tool this new technology all these fun interns can actually do
1:23:11 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsthere are trends inside of bigger companies to get rid of management like to get rid of whole management layers and I think it is a huge mistake.