"In our current AI hype cycle, there is a feverish hope that AI will save us. The point of view is that AI will make us more efficient, effective, and resilient, and in some instances, this will be true. On the other hand, the pessimist (bearish) point of view is that AI is also reducing human input, eliminating thinking roles, and concentrating wealth and power."
"Fifty years ago, productivity growth in advanced economies began to slow down. Productivity growth - the component of GDP growth that is not due to increases in labor and capital - is the primary driver of rising incomes. When it slows, so does economic growth as a whole. This makes it an urgent trend to understand. Unfortunately, the most popular explanation for why it's happening might be wrong."
"My goal in this essay is to help others make better decisions on a potential hire, business partner, or even life partner as quickly and as accurately as possible. It's made up of suggested action steps and some of the ruminations that underlie them. At the end I include my own assessment of different personality assessments and some of my go-to interview and reference questions."
Weekly curated resources target designers, thinkers, and makers with perspectives on AI, productivity, hiring, and seniority. AI generates both optimism about efficiency, effectiveness, and resilience and pessimism about reducing human input, eliminating thinking roles, and concentrating wealth and power. Productivity growth in advanced economies has slowed for fifty years, affecting income and GDP growth, and prevailing explanations for the slowdown may be incorrect. Practical guidance appears for assessing people rapidly for hires or partnerships, including action steps, reflections, and assessments of personality tests and interview/reference questions. Editorial selection highlights independent design voices and critical thinking about design work.
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