Johnathan Nightingale

@johnathan.bsky.social

I’m working on your boss. worldsbestnewsletter.com (he/him)

The number of questions we've gotten from bosses in the last year who are really trying their best to both manage their teams, their goals and commitments to the org, and their org's AI mandates, but where those things are all entirely out of alignment with each other... this is everywhere.

Raw Signal Group@rawsignal.ca · 4mo ago

There's a massive difference between what a lot of workplaces THINK they're asking of their people re: using AI... And what's actually happening. @shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social talked about that difference with @theatlantic.com recently:

To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI

Acknowledging that AI systems are advancing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts, says Eryk Salvaggio.

techpolicy.press

If you manage people, and you don't read @rawsignal.ca's newsletter... well, that's probably fine but you definitely should start. On managing teams when you don't have the relevant expertise: "The tools are getting faster but the core issue was never that you were bullshitting slowly."