Tech Productivity Issue #292 (How AI is Shaping the Workplace)

Issue #292 (How AI is Shaping the Workplace) 09/16/24

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If you're interested in the impact of AI on the workplace, you'll want to check out a recent Work Trend Index Annual Report from Microsoft and LinkedIn. It looks at three main findings: Employees wanting AI at work, how AI is raising the bar, and what the rise of the AI power user reveals about the future.

Pie Chart about the Future of AI and work

The report is quite extensive, as described in the intro:

"To help leaders and organizations overcome AI inertia, Microsoft and LinkedIn looked at how AI will reshape work and the labor market broadly, surveying 31,000 people across 31 countries, identifying labor and hiring trends from LinkedIn, and analyzing trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals as well as research with Fortune 500 customers."

The page includes some nicely organized and graphical data points. You can also get a brief summary by downloading the executive summary (PDF) or the full report (PDF) if you want all the details.

Now on to this week's hand-picked productivity links!

Tools & Apps

WriteMail.ai — A tool to generate professional new emails and replies using AI, with real-time suggestions, email tone selection, multilingual support, and more.

Slack Dumper — An open-source tool to save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges.

Notion Web Clipper — Official Notion browser extension that allows you to save any page on the web to Notion, with ability to add notes, share it, make it a task, among other features.

Meco — Free your newsletters from the inbox. Move your newsletters to a space built for reading and declutter your inbox in seconds. sponsor

BetterDictation — A dictation tool for Mac based on OpenAI's Whisper model for high-quality AI-powered transcriptions with support for more than 100 languages, including correct punctuation.

Assista — An AI-powered productivity assistant to streamline your tasks and boost efficiency, with integrations for Notion, LinkedIn, Gmail, GCal, and HubSpot.

DailyLauncher — Chrome extension that offers a new tab startup page so you can visually organize your bookmarks with a drag-and-drop interface.

Articles & Resources

10 Things You Won’t Get Until After the Work is Done — Yet another article (this one just a brief list) about finishing projects, something that likely plagues too many of us who aspire to create the next big thing.

What Is Psychometric Testing? — The article explains that this standardized form of measurement "has become vital in modern workplaces, offering insights into current and potential staff abilities, personalities, and performance potential."

Free Your Newsletters From the Inbox — A platform that lets you liberate your inbox and move to a newsletter aggregator built for reading, with support for Gmail and Outlook. sponsor

5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Enhance Your Work Output — Nothing too groundbreaking here, but it's nice to hear these tips from someone who has studied the science of productivity for well over a decade.

What the Jetsons Got Right, and Very Wrong, About the Future of Work — The most surprising thing in this article is the side point that the Jetsons cartoon only aired for a single season in the 1960s before it was rebooted in the '80s!

Creativity and the Brain — First of a two-part series. This one looks at some studies that address research related to brain activity involved in creative thought processes.

Useful and Overlooked Skills — Definitely a unique set of 'skills' most of which, if not all, you likely haven't considered or tried to improve on.

Suggestions?

Have a suggestion for a productivity-related tool, article, or other resource? Send me a direct message via X (@LouisLazaris) and I’ll consider including it in a future issue.

Stay productive!

Louis
techproductivity.co
@LouisLazaris

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