Y.T.’s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It’s better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they’re careful, not cocky. It’s better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She’s pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It’s a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.
Incredible book. Takes a chapter or two to get used to the writing style (2d person present tense if I recall).
Correction: 3rd person. Somehow the present tense throws a different reading rhythm that you have to get into first.
Wouldn’t 2nd person be more like
“you decide to read the memo slowly…”
The snippet above read like 3rd person present tense to me, which is still definitely unusual.
Jesus Christ, they really wanna force people to use AI.
Hundreds of billions of dollars can’t be wrong!
No, seriously. They can’t. be. wrong.
I can attest. I’m told all day long every day to use AI use AI use AI. It’s going to transform us / we must use it to survive / we won’t be left behind / these tools are changing the world / if we don’t use AI others will and they will eat our lunch. It’s so intense that performative AI use has begun: “look everyone I did an AI!!”
“Please, we’ve bet the farm on this, at least pretend to think its useful”
Help us replace you and we’ll throw you a few extra bucks in the meantime.
No; help us replace you or else we’ll dock ya.
My workplace is also requiring AI usage to show in goals and evaluation reports.
I don’t know if this fabricated push is just window dressing for stakeholders, but that kind of surprised me, because we’re not exactly backed by VC or even in this “big tech” arms race.
No, no, if you create something, there could be legal/copyright issues. Just have AI do it, so we can steal from other people legally…
One of us !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdxuWq1-5qk
