Ch…ch…changes

Did you hear? Claude now has a feature that provides insights into how you’re using it. Like, patterns about time of day, what sort of tasks you give it, what your collaboration style is. It also lets you set No-Claude hours and sometimes asks what you’d like to keep doing yourself instead of offloading to…

It’s not pleasant when things go to hell in a handbasket. The type of hell and the parameters of the handbasket may vary, but in general it involves the sudden need to stop doing X because now you need to do Y, which wasn’t foreseeable up until this very moment in time, and no one’s…

Framework-makers are gonna framework, and last week I introduced one for boosting organizational AI literacy. Hint: It’s more than providing shiny new tools. ICYMI, the upshot is that the most meaningful productivity gains won’t happen until the org redesigns how work gets done in the AI era. And that’s … hard. This post is aimed…

I’m kinda fond of planning ahead. Not the part where you whip out Jira and start assigning tasks and setting up sprint boards like a madman. More so what happens before then. The thinking through what needs to happen next, and what might happen next, and how to reconcile the two. Then we can move…

I don’t like being told what to do. Ask my Mom. Twice in my career I’ve been told my position is no longer necessary, and thank you and don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Well, they didn’t use those exact words. But they might as well have. I work in the…

I know this will come as a surprise to anyone who’s gone to work in an office lately, but worker dissatisfaction is pervasive. The craptastic job market has made this worse, and folks are job hugging in misery, unable to leave and unable to move on. At the same time, leaders and managers have been…