Gotta just laugh this one off and go back to hotels at some point.
@Airbnb host let's me know their home is not open for business 56 minutes before check in on booking I made 6 weeks prior.
Reached out the day prior to see about an early check in to no response...
@AirbnbHelp
Kenny Dillingham has signed a new contract at Arizona State, which will average $7.5 million over the course of the deal. The staff salary pool is up to $11 million, which puts it near the top of the Big 12, sources told @PeteThamel.
Can’t say I’ve ever seen a media relations note attempting to dictate what interview questions are out of bounds. I’m sure no one will be asking about anything that happened the past week. 😂
The Detroit Tigers now with dynamic 1-2 punch in the backend of their bullpen with the signing of closer Kenley Jansen to 1-year deal, joining Kyle Finnegan
The best way to deal with people who are irrationally mean:
1. Ignore them completely (best way).
2. Disarm them with kindness.
Allow no one to pull you low enough to hate them.
When MSU suspended Tucker in Sept 2023, Interim President Woodruff & AD Haller held a press conference, issued statements, and answered questions. Despite that, they were criticized for not doing enough. It will be telling whether the media applies the same standard in this case.
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.
$30 per seat per month.
$1.4 million annually.
I called it "digital transformation."
The board loved that phrase.
They approved it in eleven minutes.
No one asked what it would actually do.
Including me.
I told everyone it would "10x productivity."
That's not a real number.
But it sounds like one.
HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.
I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."
They stopped asking.
Three months later I checked the usage reports.
47 people had opened it.
12 had used it more than once.
One of them was me.
I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.
It took 45 seconds.
Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.
But I called it a "pilot success."
Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.
The CFO asked about ROI.
I showed him a graph.
The graph went up and to the right.
It measured "AI enablement."
I made that metric up.
He nodded approvingly.
We're "AI-enabled" now.
I don't know what that means.
But it's in our investor deck.
A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.
I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."
He asked what that meant.
I said "compliance."
He asked which compliance.
I said "all of them."
He looked skeptical.
I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."
He stopped asking questions.
Microsoft sent a case study team.
They wanted to feature us as a success story.
I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."
I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.
They didn't verify it.
They never do.
Now we're on Microsoft's website.
"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."
The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.
He got 3,000 likes.
He's never used Copilot.
None of the executives have.
We have an exemption.
"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."
I wrote that policy.
The licenses renew next month.
I'm requesting an expansion.
5,000 more seats.
We haven't used the first 4,000.
But this time we'll "drive adoption."
Adoption means mandatory training.
Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.
But completion will be tracked.
Completion is a metric.
Metrics go in dashboards.
Dashboards go in board presentations.
Board presentations get me promoted.
I'll be SVP by Q3.
I still don't know what Copilot does.
But I know what it's for.
It's for showing we're "investing in AI."
Investment means spending.
Spending means commitment.
Commitment means we're serious about the future.
The future is whatever I say it is.
As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
More information: UM conducted an internal investigation, interviewing both Moore and the employee (separately, I presume), this summer. Both said, "No how and no way" anything was happening between them, which didn't give UM much to go on.
Her account flipped yesterday morning.
Do we know when Michigan first found out about Moore? The idea that they potentially sat on it until Ohio State to see if they won/got in the playoffs only to lose and turn around and say “he’s not a Michigan Man” is maybe the most Michigan Man thing of it all