I found this bit on ZDNet about a Harvard study on genAI use kind of interesting. Boiled down, it says generative AI in the workplace improves people’s work but erodes their motivation and engagement. There are numbers! Apparently.
The algorithm knows me, which is why it served up this piece of sports writing about caffeine.
It was just past 11:20 a.m. on a Monday in New York City when the caffeine began to take hold. My head buzzed. My stomach sloshed. I had felt so confident just a couple of hours earlier. Now I felt defeated.
I was no Dan Campbell.
Those of you paying attention might recall I set my kitchen on fire about a year ago, or at least I set the roast pork loin in the oven on fire… somehow. We finally had the oven replaced last week, and having a baker in the house meant that the first thing out of it were these amazing cinnamon scrolls.
I spent most of the election weekend down in Sydney, finishing a book in my hotel room and giving a talk at that architecture conference.
It went very well, thank you.
Both the talk—and, of course, the election.
I’m in Sydney today and over the weekend. I’m supposed to be staying at the Novotel, but there are about 87 Novotels in Sydney, including a City Centre Novotel and a Central Sydney Novotel (which is actually in Haymarket).
Currently sliding between alternate Novotel’s, and feeling as though I am in danger of losing contact with my alpha site universe.
I found this in my iPhone's reminder app this morning. I have no memory of making it, but it seems like a pretty good plan for the workday.
