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The endless stream of media consumption continues. As I use Substack even more and follow more interesting people, I also get a plethora of interesting posts I want to read.

As always, I share my best discoveries with you. If you like the links, share this post with your friends.

What fully automated firms will look like by Dwarkesh Patel

This post considers a potential future scenario where high performing employees get “cloned” by AIs. Those AIs can then be scaled similar to current technologies like servers.

Where today companies have trouble finding and training new people, in the future a trained AI agent can be multiplied indefinitely. While in some points this sounds like an interesting thought-experiment (which will likely become reality in some years), it is also frightening to see that dozens of e. g. software engineers will lose their jobs to those AIs.

The Paradise Paradox by Sketchplanations

Have you also some ideas in the back of your mind what paradise looks for you? Being on a lone island, working on the beach and enjoying every day like being on vacation?

This post illustrates the so called paradise paradox, which is the “tempting but misguided belief that moving to a “paradise” will magically make everything better”.

It also offers strategies on how to minimise the pull of paradise: By cultivating gratitude, prioritising experiences over material goods, simplifying life and having meaningful goals, the temptation of the supposedly paradise won’t be that big.

The Manager’s Iceberg by Rafa Páez

The Manager’s Iceberg shows the invisible work a manager has to do to create high performing teams. 

From his experience, Rafa Páez has found ten activities and responsibilities which lead manager’s to transform their teams to high-performing ones:

1. Running Effective 1:1s
2. Coaching & Mentoring
3. Observation & Feedback
4. Goals & Prioritization
5. Strategic Planning
6. Managing Up, Down, and Around
7. Conflict Resolution
8. Removing Barriers
9. Empowering Decision-Making
10. Creating a Positive Environment

If you are a manager, or want to become one, I highly recommend reading this post to see which tasks await you once you manage your own team.

Interview with the founders of the AI editor Windsurf by Syntax.fm

I really enjoyed listening to this podcast episode of Syntax.fm. Wes and Scott interviewed the founders of the Windsurf Editor on the development on the editor and the future of software engineering in the ear of AI.

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