Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon

Making talent tools @shopify. Research Psychologist turned product builder. All things design - behavior - tech.

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

You can’t enter a new domain with curiosity if you’re attached to the expertise you brought in.

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

@gregisenberg That joy is pure gold! That’s what makes life worth living. It’s the excitement of the unknown and the courage to be curious about it vs fearful. That’s creativity. Hang on to it, pursue it for the sake of pursuing it.

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

"We have a notion that the happiest people are those who have aimed their life toward some goal and then attained it, like winning a championship trophy or achieving renown. But the best moments of life can be found within the lifelong learning or quest itself."

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

I was reminded recently of an article by David Brooks in The Atlantic, titled "You Might Be a Late Bloomer." Two paragraphs that have stuck with me:

"We have a notion that the happiest people are those who have aimed their life toward some goal and then attained it, like winning a championship trophy or achieving renown. But the best moments of life can be found within the lifelong learning or quest itself. It's doing something so fulfilling that the work is its own reward. 'Effort is the one thing that gives meaning to life,' the Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck once wrote. 'Effort means you care about something.'

'The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life,' the sculptor Henry Moore once told the poet Donald Hall. 'And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do.'"

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

@garrytan gotta love those human asymetries... and no I didn't misspell that word on purpose

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

Was that a #futurama reference in my latest post on building agents. Yes. Yes it was.

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

“The human is a special kind of actor in this system. The human is you, the architect. The person with aim, taste, and will. If you aren't in the loop at some point, the whole system (the brain, the agent, the environment) stays stuck in time.”

https://t.co/LgODdnwup4

[Jessica Hertz @jessicarhertz]

Get to know River, our internal agent that among other things drastically reduces the cost of context gathering across the company. No more digging through docs, Slack, and requiring people to spread context. A new kind of information architecture.

Talked about this with @tobi on our Context episode:

[Kazden @kazdenc]

in honour of Toronto Tech Week, my builder sunday project was tinkering with this Canadian Tech directory of companies and VCs

🇨🇦https://t.co/iLoRfWn37m

[Tim Parkins @timgparkins]

Really enjoyed this from @eveblou !
Feels like way too much talent talk these days is stuck on reducing headcount or making lists of skills to develop. This piece nails something way more important: knowing how to actually move inside complex systems is probably the real skill that matters now.

Love the framing 👏

https://t.co/OURETjnrGq

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

@timgparkins Glad to hear it resonated with you @timgparkins !

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

The greatest people are self-managing 👌🏻
the most important job of a leader is aligning these people around a common vision… and finding + keeping these people in the first place

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Steve Jobs on the most important job of a CEO

“The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision, being able to articulate that so the people around you can understand it, and getting consensus on a common vision.”

Steve continues:

“We wanted people who were insanely great at what they did… and the neatest thing that happens when you get a core group ten great people is that it becomes self-policing as to who they let into that group. So I consider the most important job of someone like myself is recruiting.”

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

@AnjneyMidha Generally such an important read

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

Or just generally, such an important read 👌🏻

[Anjney Midha @AnjneyMidha]

if you run an ai lab, pls ensure your team has read this before putting any charts out into the world

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

@rousseaukazi 100% I call people who do this organically 'Shapeshifters'.

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

https://t.co/c7XpxMZita

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

1/ thé most significant change in tech right now isn’t just AI. It’s the physics of talent changing around it. When you change the physics, the shape of your top performers changes too.

[Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon @eveblou]

5/ I wrote the full version: What the org chart can’t see: the new physics of talent.