Molly Graham
Co-founder of Glue Club and The Guild, and host of TED's WorkLife podcast; writes the Lessons newsletter, and led operations at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Quip and Lambda School after five years at Facebook.
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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.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 1st of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsthe future will be defined by the people that learn not the people that know.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsBut actually standing still is like the least safe thing you can do. It's basically you're guaranteed to fall behind.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 3rd of 20 in this recording
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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.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 4th of 20 in this recording
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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.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 5th of 20 in this recording
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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."
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 6th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsBut until we have real evidence, what if we believe that they're not going away? They're just going to reinvent themselves.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 7th of 20 in this recording
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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
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 8th of 20 in this recording
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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.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 9th of 20 in this recording
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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.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 10th of 20 in this recording
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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.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 11th of 20 in this recording
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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?
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 12th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsit just means literally everyone in the world is a manager now
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 13th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsI'm a believer that a lot of jobs are going to be created because of this technology
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 14th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsyou got to take that stance of I want to be part of designing the future of my profession not protecting the past.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 15th of 20 in this recording
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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.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 16th of 20 in this recording
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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
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 17th of 20 in this recording
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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.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 18th of 20 in this recording
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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
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 19th of 20 in this recording
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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.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 20th of 20 in this recording
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