Choosing is the work

What happened this week: * AI-adopting firms are growing headcount, not cutting it: A Goldman Sachs analysis circulating this week, charted by Callum Williams of The Economist, shows US firms that have adopted AI report net ... * Five percent, not fifty: the candid private-equity number: Pete Stavros, co-head of global private equity at KKR, told the Milken Institute conference last week that AI is improving portfolio compa... * Both AI labs went into private equity the same day: On Monday, Anthropic announced a $1.5 billion vehicle with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Hellman & Friedman. Engineers from Anthropic will embed ... What to try: * Push it harder, then skillify, then iterate: The simplest workflow upgrade David has coached this year, and it stacks. Push it harder: when the model gives you a perfectly reasonable answer, tell i... * Shadow your most AI-pilled employee for two days: Matt Stockton, an operator and investor, made the case this week. Find the rabbit-holed colleague (not the keenest, not the head of digital transfo... * Ask AI to build you an HTML slide deck instead of PowerPoint: Just ask. "Build me a slide deck on [topic] in a single HTML file." Most chat tools can do this now. Why bother? PowerPoint output from... Read the full edition with all links and sources: https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/#edition-2026-05-09