The Long Lift

The Long Lift | Dad & husband | Above-knee amputee training to bench 500lbs by 50 years old | Family, food, consistency over years #TLL

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

A dad, husband, and an above-knee amputee. I’m training to bench 500 lbs by 50 years old #2032. Maybe take a run at #Paralympics in #Brisbane

#TLL is about consistency, goals and drive, while maintaining a life built on family, food, and work. I don’t know how this ends. I do know I’ll keep showing up.

#powerlifting #LFG #Family #docuseries #tiktok #instagram #YouTube

[Zeb Evans @DJ_CURFEW]

Today we reduced headcount by 22%. The business is the strongest it's ever been. So I think it's important to be direct about what I'm seeing and why.

First, I made this decision and I own it. I did it because the way to operate at the highest level of productivity is changing, and to win the future, ClickUp needs to change with it.

Second, this wasn't about cutting costs. Most savings from this change will flow directly back into the people who stay. We'll be introducing million-dollar salary bands. If you create outsized impact using AI, you'll be paid outside of traditional bands.

Most importantly, I have the deepest gratitude for those affected. We're doing this from a position of strength specifically so we can take care of people properly. Everyone affected receives a package aimed at honoring their contributions and easing the transition.

I only see two options: wait for this to play out gradually in the market or be honest about what I'm seeing and act proactively.

THE 100X ORGANIZATION
The primary change is that we're restructuring around what I call 100x org. The goal is 100x output. The roles required to build at the highest level are fundamentally different than they were a year ago.

Incremental improvements to existing systems won't get us there. We need new ones. That means creating enough disruption to rebuild rather than iterate on what's already broken.

The common narrative is that AI makes everyone more productive. It doesn't. Many of the workflows of today, if left unchanged, create bottlenecks in AI systems.

These roles will evolve. But waiting for that to happen naturally means falling behind now.

The 100x org is actually heavily dependent on people - infinitely more than today. This is only possible with 10x people that have embraced and adopted new ways of working.

THE BUILDERS, AGENT MANAGERS, AND FRONT-LINERS

— THE BUILDERS: 10X ENGINEERS
I don't think most companies have internalized what's actually happening with AI in engineering. The common narrative is that AI makes all engineers more productive. That may be true in isolation, but at an organization level - that is the farthest thing from reality.

Here's what we've validated recently at ClickUp: the great engineers, the ones who can orchestrate, architect, and review, are becoming 100x engineers. They're not writing code. They're directing agents that write code. The skill is judgment.

AI makes the best engineers wildly more productive, and everyone else using AI slows these engineers down.
Think about it - the bottlenecks are (1) orchestration - telling AI what to do, and (2) reviewing - what AI did. Everything is leapfrogged and no longer needed.
So who do you want orchestrating and reviewing code?

And how do you want your best engineers to spend their time?

If your best engineers are spending time reviewing other people's code, then this is inherently an inefficient bottleneck. These engineers can review their agent's code much faster than reviewing human code.

The new world is about enabling your 10x engineers to become 100x.

The wrong strategy is to push every engineer to use infinite tokens. Companies doing this are celebrating 500% more pull requests. But customer outcomes don't match the volume of code being generated.

I call this the great reckoning of AI coding, and every company will face this soon if not already.

More code is just another bottleneck to the best engineers, and ultimately to your company's impact as well.

— THE BUILDERS: 10X PRODUCT MANAGERS
Product management and design roles are merging.

Designers that have customer focus, become more like product managers.

And product managers that have intuition for UX become more like designers.

The bottleneck of user research is gone. It takes us just one mention of an agent to kickoff research and analyze results.

The bottleneck of product <> design iteration is also gone. The product builder iterates on their own, along with agents and skills that ensure alignment with quality and strategy.

Also controversial today - I believe that the wrong strategy is to have your PMs shipping code - that just introduces another bottleneck that the best engineers will waste their time on.

To be clear, PMs should be coding but they should do this in a playground to iterate, validate, and scope. That code should not go to production.

Everything outside of managing systems, orchestrating AI, and reviewing output becomes a bottleneck.
That's why the other roles that are critical along with these are the systems managers (to reduce bottlenecks) along with a bottleneck you can't replace - customer meeting time.

— THE SYSTEM MANAGERS
Ironically, the people that automate their jobs with AI will always have a job. They become owners of the AI systems - agent managers. We have many examples of these people at ClickUp.

The underlying systems in which we operate are absolutely critical to get right. I think most companies are delusional to think they can iterate on existing systems and compete in this new world.

You must create enough disruption so that old systems are deprecated entirely. If there's any definition for 'AI native' that's what it is.

— THE FRONT-LINERS
In a world that will become saturated with AI communication, the human touch will matter more than anything to customers.

This is a bottleneck that you shouldn't replace - even when agents are high enough quality to do video meetings.

One-on-one meeting time with customers is something that shouldn't be automated. The systems around the meetings should be - so that front-liners spend nearly 100% of their time with customers.

REWARDING 100X IMPACT
In a world where companies are able to do so much more with less, where does that excess money go?
In our case, much of the savings in this new operating model will flow directly back to those that enabled it.

We must reward people that create productivity accordingly. This aligns incentives on both sides. Plus, in a world where your best people create 100x impact, you can't afford to lose them.

You should aim to retain these employees for decades. The context they have and their ability to efficiently orchestrate and review will be nearly impossible to replace.

Compensation bands of today should be thrown out the door. We're introducing $1 million cash/year salary bands with a path available to nearly everyone in the company if they produce 100x impact by creating or managing AI systems.

THE FUTURE
Nearly every company will make changes like these. The ones that do it proactively will define what comes next.

The future is not fewer people. It's different work, new roles, and better rewards for those who embrace it. We're already seeing entirely new roles emerge, like Agent Managers, that didn't exist a year ago.

ClickUp is positioning to lead this shift, not just internally, but for our customers too. I've never been more certain about where we're headed.

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@Q_TheStormRider Pool hall junkies quotes

[Jordan Rolfes @CoachRolfes]

The math behind Jesus being the Messiah is mind blowing.

Here are the odds:
8 specific prophecies fulfilled by one man:
1 in 100 quadrillion

48 prophecies:
1 in 10¹⁵⁷
That’s a number beyond human comprehension.

Jesus fulfilled 300–500+ Old Testament prophecies written centuries before His birth.

This isn’t chance.
This isn’t coincidence.

The odds are literally astronomical.

 Our King is the real deal.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health.

That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease!

We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

The Bible doesn’t say the earth is flat, never once did Jesus say slavery was okay, acknowledged that it is real that was said, the greatest discovery of human history, an empty tomb, was found by two women, it says the man should treat the woman as equals in red letters, and name one thing that was proven wrong by science and biology… I suggest you actually read the Bible, you sound like a moron because you’re parroting nonsense you have heard. Go read it and then talk about it

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@forallcurious These things aren’t new to Christian’s who have read the Bible. Only those that have spent a life time opposing Christianity see this as a new discovery

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@forallcurious Sounds a lot like what the Bible says

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@ThrillaRilla369 I cook fish for the pescatarians and everyone else brings pot luck. If they can’t have pork, smoked beef, mustard be halal or kosher, they should bring it.

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@fights_fanatic Valid. Time people remember that not everyone is playing games with them.

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@sunafter_ Probably an Indian or Arab dude

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@AgKnocks @grok what did he say that LBJ don’t want to let him say no more

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I’m coming to the conclusion that the biggest challenge for Enterprise AI, and AI in general , as of now, is that it’s still impossible to make sure that everyone gets the same answer to the same question, every time.

Which is a great response to the doomers. AI doesn’t know the consequences of its output.

Judgement and the ability to challenge AI output is becoming increasingly necessary, and valuable.

Which makes domain knowledge more valuable by the second.

Am I wrong ?

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@LibertyCappy Steer clear and do something productive she was been wanting you to do for a long time. Don’t look for a pat on the back. This is the only way my son

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@AB84 Jesus, mom, dad and wife. A handful of HS friends. That’s it that’s the list.

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@FluentInFinance *symptoms

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@FluentInFinance The inverse of this, I explained systems to ChatGPT and it told me to go to the hospital asap, 20% chance it was sepsis. Got to the hospital and it was sepsis. Minimum cut my hospital stay to 36 hours from a week+ and may have saved my stubborn life.

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@allenanalysis Why did a coding agent have access to production?

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@Heero420 @LeadingReport There is more proof, written outside the Bible, archeological and the fact the Bible both old and New Testament of statements being true the further we get into science. I have yet to find an atheist that can definitively prove anything in the Bible to be false

[The Long Lift @TheLongLift]

@GovernorVA Nothing regulated and policy driven in Government is temporary.

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@EricLDaugh Isn’t the narrator using a quote from pool hall junkies?