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Slack is no place for the Great American Novel(and it's terrible for that project update you just wrote too) The other day, someone asked me to read an important project update. I was interested in the project, but I kept putting it off. Every time I looked at it, a thousand words written in Slack chat, all in one paragraph, all in plain text, I felt overwhelmed. Not reading it in a timely way definitely made me worse at my job, but I just didn’t have the fortitude. Sending long status...
Selling AI sure is fun! Recently, I had a conversation with the founder of an AI startup who described an interesting dynamic: CEO of a traditional enterprise announces that every department should be modernizing operations with AI Every team rushes to investigate, including teams with limited tech expertise (think HR, finance, marketing, legal) Suddenly everyone wants to buy stuff, per the CEO mandate, so IT scrambles to assemble an AI review board, usually without experienced personnel...
Surveying VCs for Kamala Harris Two weeks ago, Leslie Feinzaig, Founder and General Partner at Graham & Walker, approached me about running a survey for signatories of the VCs for Kamala Harris pledge. As Leslie led the effort to get investors engaged with the pledge, she saw that signatories included numerous Republicans and Independents as well as the Democrats you might expect. In order to accurately represent their perspective, she wanted an independent view into what this politically...