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re: teaching myself how to THiNK

[shetu @formerlySMART]

"The fact that you're here, in the midst of all this nothing, is pretty amazing." -- Somewhere between Saturn and Uranus (HT: @fabionj) https://t.co/pC3nGUf1jV

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

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.

[shetu @formerlySMART]

“The emotionally immature man seeks out motivation to do something hard one time. The emotionally mature man uses discipline to do something hard a thousand times.”

[shetu @formerlySMART]

@MyFriendTimC @realUNOgame i hoped the answer was Option 2; but based on the rules, it’s clearly Option 1.

“Wild cards are considered a match”
“WD4 are considered Wild”

you lose.

[shetu @formerlySMART]

@elonmusk how do you pronounce this?

[shetu @formerlySMART]

What’s another word for “Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified and Arranged So as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition”?

[shetu @formerlySMART]

STL = Stereolithography Mesh

#3Dprinting #TIL

[shetu @formerlySMART]

@PeteInvest @ramit when the "no one's going to see" part changes... Stance is my gateway brand.

[shetu @formerlySMART]

@ramit ... and I just did. For the whole family. #richlife

[shetu @formerlySMART]

@ramit Business/First Class plane tickets

[shetu @formerlySMART]

"courage is just fear that has said its prayers." — Anne Lamont

[Georgia Tech @GeorgiaTech]

At 4:07 am, GT student Richard Xiong captured this stunning image of an almost total lunar eclipse at the precise moment the moon sat at the top of Tech Tower. He calculated the moon’s exact position to capture this image — and the chance to repeat it may take hundreds of years.

[Georgia Tech @GeorgiaTech]

On her first visit to Georgia Tech, Jasmine Hornbeck and her mother slept in their car in the @CocaCola building parking lot.

In her first year, her father passed away. Jasmine shares her journey of loss, grieving, and graduating with highest honors. | https://t.co/UD9OIabouC

[shetu @formerlySMART]

@jeremiahfelt We've been Team Joule for a few years. #1 favorite kitchen appliance by a long shot.

[shetu @formerlySMART]

@jeremiahfelt What temp? And are you Team Anova out Team Joule?

[shetu @formerlySMART]

@ramit Annuity

[Chelsea Handler @chelseahandler]

Has anyone tried giving them $1,400 and telling them it should last 10 weeks?

[TruthMatters, Esq. @truthmattersesq]

@DBarkhuff Exactly. 🎯

[shetu @formerlySMART]

@PreetBharara If Roe v Wade gets overturned, how long until Senate gets rid of the filibuster?

O/U is 18.5 days.

#AskPreet

[Robert Ingersol @IngersolRobert]

@CanDoChiChi @ryanstruyk