Automation Of Admin Work And Global Finance Ops Drag
A cited study is claimed to estimate that shadow work costs companies more than $1.7T per year due to hours wasted on manual tasks.
Adding a highly personalized postscript referencing a recipient’s specific preferences materially increases outbound response rates (claimed ~3x).
Harry Stebbings says he emailed Marc Benioff 53 times (every Sunday) before receiving a reply agreeing to come on the show.
Process Shift Prototype First Vs Upfront Artifacts
The traditional design process emphasizing extensive upfront research and artifacts before building anything may be outdated for today's world.
AI-assisted programming reduces the cost of building the wrong thing by making implementation faster.
When people can make almost anything, differentiation shifts from ability-to-build toward choosing and curating what to build.
Ideation And Problem-Framing As Adoption Bottlenecks
A key barrier to most people building software is that many real-world problems are not perceived as software-shaped and therefore do not trigger software solutions.
Programmers are trained to interpret repeated tasks as candidates for automation, making them more likely than non-programmers to notice software-shaped solutions.
When non-programmers are told they can instantly create any app, they may respond positively but still fail to build anything because they cannot think of an idea.