Thinking that maybe the whole “which jobs will AI replace” has been the wrong question. Reasonable? Sure. Maybe the obvious
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What Happens When You Did Everything Right… And The Future Changes Everything?
I was speaking at a private corporate event last week and during the Q&A session a senior executive pointed out
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AI Is Making Attention Cheap… So What Becomes Valuable?
Marketing has an attention problem (again). Not because attention is disappearing. Because we built an entire industry around the belief
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Navigating Future Shock With Fredric Marshall – This Week’s Thinking With Mitch Joel Conversation
Episode #1050 of Thinking With Mitch Joel is now live. This conversation with Fredric Marshall gets into a feeling that
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Navigating Future Shock With Fredric Marshall – TWMJ #1050
Welcome to episode #1050 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation). Fredric Marshall has spent decades helping
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The AI Closet
What’s the old joke about sex in high school? Everyone is talking about it… but nobody is doing it. Is
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What Happens When AI’s Average Is Better Than Your Best?
The average is getting really good… often better than what we’d previously define as average. Not perfect… not brilliant… not
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We Trained People To Work Like Machines… Then We Built The Machines
Question: Do you think we spent too many decades training humans to work like machines… so we, kinda, dug this
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When Productivity Becomes Surveillance (Thanks, AI)
Something tells me that this is going to become a very contentious topic that is going to tweak how many
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Why Are We More Honest With Machines Than People?
I’ve searched for information about something deeply personal in a search engine that I would not share with a close
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Personalization Is Not Intimacy
As a kid I thought it was so cool to see my name in a book. I also realized that
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The Real Evolution Of Work Slop
Work slop is a huge mess and problem for most people who work in an office. It’s bad stuff. It’s
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What Happens If ‘AI’ Becomes An Insult?
Young people lead all technology revolutions… including this AI one… right? They are digital natives… they grew up with smartphones,
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The Most Dangerous Idea In Business Right Now
I’ve been far too negative (or a tinge cynical) with certain business perspectives I’ve held more recently. Worse, I didn’t
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What Happens When We Prefer The AI Voice?
When Generative AI first appeared, most people thought that AI could never generate something creative… …then the conversation shifted to
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Who Are You If AI Can Do What You Do?
Most people think the anxiety around AI is about losing work… I think it’s about losing something much more fundamental
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The Intimacy Of Machines That Remember
For decades, our relationship with technology has been surprisingly simple. We decided when to open the laptop. We chose when
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Business Wants The Future… But Only If The Past Approves It
Business loves to talk about the future. Innovation… transformation… disruption… reinvention. We fill conference stages and annual reports with language
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The Kids Are Not Alright With Big Tech
One of the more fascinating stories I read this week wasn’t about marketing, artificial intelligence, social media or the latest
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The Strategy Echo Chamber
What is at the heart of strategy? Better decisions… better investments… better products… better execution… better planning… better forecasting. All
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Are Best Practices Too Slow For AI?
The technology is usually easy… leadership is the hard part. Many years ago, I used to tell audiences that “technology
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