Wonderful post. Makes me wonder about the impacts on organizational learning and recall while remembering and documentation is being increasingly outsourced to AI. How do you think this mechanism affects the entire engineering function?
I've always been an appalling note taker, often caught out with unfinished tasks in many a formal meet.
But I’d rather write the minutes than continue with these eerie black mirror Kafkaesque meet-ups, where everything is recorded like a court room. Do we need a bot appearing in a one on one? Do we really need every team interaction recorded verbatim? Does the fact our words are instantly streamed into every corporate system for analysis and alerting affect our human interactions?
I call them Schrödinger’s cat meetings because I'm sure the act of being watched and measured changes our behaviour. Should we honour our evolutionary biology and give ourselves some bot free human only spaces? Probably.
Being observed in meetings should change how we participate but for some fascinating reason I don’t think the human brain comprehends that. We have all been pacified to sleep while the AI records our every word.
I do believe that you are blending two different concepts here. They should not be conflated: recording our every word in a meeting for summaries and action items vs. writing our own notes as an expression of our thoughts and the creation of our own memories.
Great post, really captivating read!
Wonderful post. Makes me wonder about the impacts on organizational learning and recall while remembering and documentation is being increasingly outsourced to AI. How do you think this mechanism affects the entire engineering function?
I think mostly positive.
Fascinating read, especially for me as a long-time GTD advocate. Lots to think about, thank you!
You’re welcome! Let me know your thoughts.
Great post, I’ll save it to my Vault;).
I've always been an appalling note taker, often caught out with unfinished tasks in many a formal meet.
But I’d rather write the minutes than continue with these eerie black mirror Kafkaesque meet-ups, where everything is recorded like a court room. Do we need a bot appearing in a one on one? Do we really need every team interaction recorded verbatim? Does the fact our words are instantly streamed into every corporate system for analysis and alerting affect our human interactions?
I call them Schrödinger’s cat meetings because I'm sure the act of being watched and measured changes our behaviour. Should we honour our evolutionary biology and give ourselves some bot free human only spaces? Probably.
Being observed in meetings should change how we participate but for some fascinating reason I don’t think the human brain comprehends that. We have all been pacified to sleep while the AI records our every word.
I do believe that you are blending two different concepts here. They should not be conflated: recording our every word in a meeting for summaries and action items vs. writing our own notes as an expression of our thoughts and the creation of our own memories.
Both are necessary. Both are good.