Melissa Swift

Best-selling author, “Effective: How to Do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World” Fixing the collision of work, humans, and tech at Anthrome Insight LLC.

[Melissa Swift @meswift]

EFFECTIVE is a best-seller! Huzzah for non-boring business books.

[Melissa Swift @meswift]

People always ask for examples of constructive business practices

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthletic: The U.S. men's team is enlisting dogs to help athletes facing high-pressure moments during the World Cup. The inclusion of dogs in the workplace is part of an expanding trend across soccer teams. https://t.co/L1UvXf1nNm

[Melissa Swift @meswift]

Yes I’m still watching these

[DJ Zullo @DJAceNBA]

The Knicks game 4 comeback set to "Layla"

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

‘Melissophobia’ is a fear of bees.

‘Mel’ is Latin for “honey.”

The name, ‘Melissa,’ comes from the Greek word for “honeybee.”

In Greek mythology, Melissa was a nymph who fed the infant Zeus honey instead of milk. Later, the gods turned her into a bee (spoiler alert).

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

What really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity. It’s ego.

Our new data: Ordering people in full-time is a power & status move. Bosses want to be worshiped at the office altar.

Policies shouldn’t be vanity projects. Hybrid is better for people & performance.

[Melissa Swift @meswift]

@bklynb4by Spinal Tap drummer

[Praveen Vaidyanathan @v_praveen]

The open-plan office is a great example of optimisation

via John Cleese

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

how it feels to keep up with ai news

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I wonder if any medieval peasants stayed awake at night replaying awkward conversations

Just lying there in the dark thinking, “I was weird at the well”

[Melissa Swift @meswift]

@panoptinomenon There’s a long line of Wigglesworths.- dorm at Harvard is named for an early one.

[James Cham @jamescham]

The comparision between redesigning factory floors for electricity and knowledge work for AI has come up often this month so why not read the original source of the comparison, Computer and Dynamo by Paul David in 1989.

(Not surprisngly, gwern has it online and it is worth reading.)

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Anytime I save a PDF, I often think about that lady who pointed out how insane it is that the easiest way to create one is by lying to your computer and telling it you are about to print something.

[Ian Wang @iantwang]

Congrats to the New York Knicks, from Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally

[Melissa Swift @meswift]

True - and - the reality is that most work is far more “messy” than the leaders supervising it understand.

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is an interesting way to think about AI and jobs. The more intertwined your routine and discretionary tasks are, the more resilient you likely are to it. https://t.co/krMufl6CmU

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

https://t.co/BCQfjEGaBS

[Melissa Swift @meswift]

Exactly! Technology is neutral to positive…how we integrate into work it is what goes wrong…(and what we could make go right, if we got it together)

[Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer @EvanKirstel]

UC Berkeley researchers found AI is making white-collar workers MORE burned out, not less. Turns out nonstop AI-powered productivity doesn’t leave room for rest or quality. The tool is good; the expectations it creates are the problem.
#AI #FutureOfWork
https://t.co/6ybOwcNT9h

[New York Post @nypost]

Wu-Tang Clan will perform at Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals Game 4 halftime show https://t.co/SqrddAEaBI

[Ben Carlson @awealthofcs]

Wemby is like AI's impact on the labor market

It feels inevitable but it's not happening quite yet

[Melissa Swift @meswift]

@kareem_carr 1000%. And many people will not ever trust a colleague again if they lie to them even once.