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I wrote a few words on leading human/AI hybrid teams open.substack.com/pub/onlydead...
Ha. Nicely done
Fluked Fluke
Update on this ongoing saga...
BAG: 'Congratulations. You're now set up on our system'
Me: Yay. Can you pay my invoice please? It's two months overdue
BAG: It will take 30 days from now for the system to process your payment
Me: 🙄
I'm doing a keynote about AI at an agency event on Friday and I've title my talk 'Beyond the Mediocrity Machine'. So much talk about efficiency and productivity, so little about how it can be a true creative and thought partner.
Saw them last year and they were just great. I'd forgotten how many bangers they'd had but also the newer stuff was good too
And how many people listen to their phones on speaker without headphones which is a personal bug bear of mine
Fascinating angle this. Before now I've used Amazon as an example of a business that believes in the value of writing as a way of thinking and explaining (so many businesses default to PPT). This gives a whole new dimension to cognitive outsourcing.
Saw Wuthering Heights last night. Verdict - I thought it was brilliant but the most amazing thing in it was not what I had expected - Martin Clunes was absolutely phenomenal
A real up and down week but some great client things happened this week and ending it on a high with a new business win 😀
To be fair, I think there's a real risk that it will be increasingly difficult for junior staff to learn the kind of craft skills that enables good judgement in a domain
Anthropic’s Head of Product for Enterprise said last week that he thought we were moving into an era of ‘vibe working’. So I've written something about the value of craft, and what we're in danger of losing onlydeadfish.substack.com/p/fish-food-...
I mean, I get that money's tight but you're taking it out on the wrong company. I'm literally a company of one person. Just pay what you owe
Latest installment in this ongoing saga:
BAG: 'Register on our system with all the information you've already given us'
Me: Okayyyy
BAG: We need you to upload a letter from your bank with an explanation of Quantum theory on it
(OK I made that last bit up but it may as well have been that)
WhatsApp is great for personal stuff and quick messages but I have clients who insist on using it for almost everything. It's a thing. 'WhatsApps that should have been an email' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
I'm a huge fan of what the BBC does and personally believe it's great value for money. The government consultation on the future of the BBC is online and anyone can submit a response. Takes about 15 minutes to do dcms.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Yes, big agencies have consistently been the worst payers for me. Small agencies are fine
Me to big agency group (BAG): 'Can you pay my invoice please as it's now overdue'
BAG:
Me: Can you pay my invoice please?
BAG:
Me: Please?
*One month later*
BAG: Can you fill in this new information and it will take 2 weeks to onboard you to.our new payment system
Me: 🙄
I've just bought this and it's on the pile to read. May bump it up to the top based on this
AI is about to steamroller through traditional L & D practice, so what could the future of learning in the workplace look like? I've had a go at mapping it out. Interested to know what you think onlydeadfish.substack.com/p/fish-food-...
That's quite the combination of topics! I worked recently with someone who always uses voice with ChatGPT - I always wonder how I'd be articulate enough to prompt it for exactly what I wanted but it's amazing how good he's got at that
AI doesn’t just give us answers, it shapes what we pay attention to. With AI becoming more ubiquitous in business, if we take short cuts, or fail to think critically, there is a huge danger that we are building up systemic risk onlydeadfish.substack.com/p/fish-food-...
This is a powerful takedown by Margaret Heffernan of the whole pretence around corporate 'purpose' which so often falls foul of less worthy incentives in the face of the realities of the market and leadership priorities heffernanm.substack.com/p/purpose-is...
We’ve reached a point where a radical rethink of how organisations are structured and nature of work has become an existential necessity. onlydeadfish.substack.com/p/fish-food-...
'The engineers who thrive aren’t necessarily the best programmers - they’re the ones who’ve figured out how to navigate everything around the code: the people, the politics, the alignment, the ambiguity.' I liked these lessons from a Google engineer addyosmani.com/blog/21-less... HT @kottke.org
Reframing is one of the most important tools that a strategist has at their disposal, and the role that AI engines can play as a cognitive circuit breaker is wholly undervalued. onlydeadfish.substack.com/p/fish-food-...
Late last year I was lucky enough to speak to Ed Cotton on his 'Inspiring Futures' podcast and the episode has just been published. We talk about AI (obvs) but particularly about AI as a thought partner, cognitive outsourcing, and the roles that it can play. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
A phenomenal article by Dr Rachel Barr looking at some of the biggest philosophical questions (our notion of self, the concept of free will, and how we find meaning) through a neuroscience lens. It gave me a totally different way of thinking about these ideas. Bravo. bigthink.com/thinking/3-p...
Congrats Matt
Pre-orders for Random the Book are now open: securityblendbooks.com/products/ran...