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  • Escaping the Poisonous Productivity Mindset

    I started earning a paycheck at age sixteen. In my forty-two years in the workforce, one thing has remained constant regardless of employer or industry: the insistence that none of us are doing enough. Through boom or bust, no matter how busy we may be, leaders demand that we be more productive. It’s maddening enough

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  • Who Cashes in on AI’s Productivity Boom? Spoiler: Not You and Me

    When I started studying AI, one assertion kept jumping out at me in every course I took. In each case, it was some variation on the breathless claim that “AI will increase productivity.” One course quantified the sentiment as “Generative AI could elevate productivity growth by 1.5% over the next ten years.” Regardless of the

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