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.
@A4KikeLippi A los que vivais en España teneis dos para verlos relativamente cerquita. En el Museo Aeronautico Aeroscopia de Toulouse lo podeis ver por dentro y por fuera.
Today, the UN family mourns the loss of Dr. Jane Goodall.
The scientist, conservationist and UN Messenger of Peace worked tirelessly for our planet and all its inhabitants, leaving an extraordinary legacy for humanity and nature.
📊 Os regalo mi Excel de finanzas personales, con el que calculo mi patrimonio, balance mensual, anual y evolución
🎁 Es para mis suscriptores de pago, pero lo voy a dejar GRATIS esta semana
⚠️ ¡Solo hasta el domingo!
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1️⃣ Seguirme
2️⃣ Dar RT
3️⃣ Comenta “EXCEL”
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@chefjoseandres@TurismoAsturias Not sure what you saw, Chef… Tazones is a horrible place, the people are super unpleasant and the food is terrible. Definitely a place no one should ever visit
🚗🚗🚗 A minutos de comenzar una nueva #OperaciónSalida, llamamos a la prudencia y a la responsabilidad al volante a aquellos que comienzan hoy sus vacaciones en la carretera. 🙏 Tod@s #BienAtados, 👀 en la carretera y 👐 al volante. Combatir el aburrimiento, sí, pero no así 😠👇
@Alguienigena1@capoatm Lo de la imagen son ventas realizadas… una hace 6h, otra hace 8h, otra hace 13h,… y ojo, este no es un mensaje de apoyo, a mi los NFTs me parecen una lotería. Lo normal es que pierdas cada euro que inviertas en ellos. Solo algunos proyectos se mantienen… este es uno de el
So @censysio just deployed the "suspicious-open-dir" label to their search engine.
So far it appears a game changer, giving very solid hit rates on finding malicious infrastructure.
So for today, this will be a thread documenting my findings using the new feature.
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