Sabina Nawaz: “Instead of delegating and disappearing, I suggest a strategy that uses what I call a delegation dial. The first step is to determine the employee’s degree of knowledge, skill and experience to handle the job or task you want to delegate. It’s obvious that an intern will need guidance, but that could be true of any team member, even a senior one, when it comes to specific projects. Note the type of questions the employee asks—do they indicate the person has an inkling of what you need them to do? Once you’ve figured out where the employee stands, you can gauge how hands-on you need to be. My delegation dial—the level of input you need to provide—consists of five notches: “do,” “tell,” “teach,” “coach” and “safety net.””
WSJ on Nex, the hottest toy of 2025: “It’s technically a gaming console, but it could pass for a funky accent piece. In fact, every part of the Nex Playground active game system is peculiar. At $249, it’s less expensive than traditional consoles even with the $89 annual subscription. It’s also marketed to people who aren’t in the habit of buying gaming systems: families with young children. It even appeals to parents who ordinarily wouldn’t let their kids anywhere near screens. With a camera tracking their motion, users control the Playground not with a hand-held controller but their own hands and movements. Instead of vegging on the sofa, they end up bouncing around the living room. As a result, parents actually like the rare gaming device that gives their children a workout.”
WSJ: “Brands can succeed in AI search by “returning to the roots of who they are, what their value proposition is to their customers, how they’re telegraphing that in the market,” Warden said. Ensuring that customers understand a brand’s value proposition, and that they discuss it in these kinds of forums, is key, he said. Brand marketing to influence consumers will be more valuable in the long-term than the current swarm of AEO activity, much of which amounts to marketers trying to boost their results on the cheap just as they did in the early days of Google, said Tom Critchlow, executive vice president of audience growth at Raptive, a platform that helps creators and the publishers they work with make money. Marketers should focus on experimentation and be wary of anyone claiming certain knowledge of future AI search models, said Koedijk, the Expedia executive.”
Mustafa Suleyman: “It’s possible to ask your AI to do pretty much any knowledge work task — just like you might ask an assistant to organize your life. The more obscure, creative [and] challenging the task you’re going to ask your AI, the better…Superintelligence in the industry today means an AI system that can learn any new task and perform better than all humans combined, at all tasks. It is a very high bar and, at the moment, it comes with a great deal of risk. It’s very uncertain how we would contain and align a system that is so much more powerful than us. The framing I prefer is one of a humanist superintelligence — one that is always in our corner, on our team, aligned to human interests. Until we can prove that it will remain safe, we won’t continue to develop a system that has the potential to run away from us. Everybody should agree to that. Yet I think it’s a novel position in the industry at the moment.”
