I have a working theory about workplace trends: assign any behavior that has persisted for decades a hyphenated descriptor, and within a year HR will be issuing formal guidance on it. Let’s examine micro-shifting and the sudden authority with which
What We Leave Behind
It takes a surprisingly small container to hold what a person accumulates over nineteen years at a job. A single copy paper box will generally do it, and into that box goes the mug from a 2009 charity golf scramble,
When the AI Notetaker Joins Your Meeting
I joined a meeting the other day and, for a moment, it was just me and the notetaker. Not for the whole thirty minutes – five other people eventually arrived, each with an apology about a call that ran long
Performative AI Takes the Stage
Somewhere this quarter, on a company earnings call you didn’t listen to, a CEO leaned toward the microphone and declared their company to be “AI-first.” Analysts nodded and scribbled notes and the company stock ticked up a respectable amount. Meanwhile,
