Cognitive Dissonance

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Which jobs in your company require a human to cognate, and which do not? That answer is your first clue about what the machine takes next. A man got a job he cannot do. AI found the role, built the resume, pulled the interview questions and told him how to answer them. He works fully remote now, so every task goes to the machine, and his whole contribution is deciding that the answer looks about right. He is an early version of a lot of jobs. For a machine, thinking is a scratchpad of reasoning tokens, and every one of them costs time and money. For you, cognition is how you take information in, work it, and keep it. Reach for the calculator often enough and the math muscle goes soft, and the same thing is now running on anything built on information and data. Most companies are sizing up the future of work as a cost question: replace the role or augment it. This remote worker, our dear reviewer, and any other person who has chosen the machine over thinking, is the topic of today's episode.