I thought the original “enshittificafion” idea was useful for illuminating a problem with platforms. I don’t think it is worth applying to everything as it obscures diverse reasons for decay: organizational inertia, AI spam, reduced capacity. Accurate naming helps solve problems
@emollick
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Wealth Group Performance Gap in Investment Returns Analysis
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"The top wealth group underperforms the bottom group by 11.3 bps per month or 1.36% per year." Here's a link to the paper: https://
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
m?abstract_id=2735946
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Why Meritocracy Matters More Than Wealth in Fund Management
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Inheritance vs. meritocracy, or why you shouldn't let rich kids invest your Mutual fund managers from poor families outperform those from wealth. This is because it is easier to be hired and promoted as a mutual fund manager if you come from wealth, even if you are bad at it.
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AI Content Flood Challenges Academic Peer Review System
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Peer review isn’t built to handle the flood of AI content, especially as not all of it will be obvious, and not all will be malicious (lots of scholars pay editors to help make their writing better, now they will use chat). The system, already straining, won’t be able to adjust.
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Humanities Courses Essential for AI Skill Development
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Also take some humanities courses, both for their own sake and if you want to get good at AI.
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Learning Coding Despite AI Advancement Remains Valuable
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People keep asking "do I need to learn coding since AI is getting good?" I don't think there is any reason to avoid learning anything as a result of AI Will careers in coding change as a result of AI? Probably, quite possibly for the better. But avoiding learning won't help you
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Interface AI Innovation Requires GPT-5 Level Intelligence
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The interface is great. It needs GPT-5 class brains to be truly transformative, I think, but it is the first example of a truly different mode of working with AI to accomplish work tasks. A really cool start.
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Devin AI Agent Autonomously Plans, Codes and Debugs
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A glimpse of the future of AI at work: I got early access to Devin, the "AI developer" – it is slow & breaks often, but you can start to see what an AI agent can do. It makes a plan and executes it autonomously, doing research, writing code & debugging, without you watching.
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Learning Goals Enhance Team Performance and Knowledge Transfer
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To make teams better, "set learning-based goals for knowledge development, knowledge re-use (knowledge that could be used for future projects), and knowledge transfer (knowledge that could be useful to other teams)." as well as performance goals. Paper: http://
eprints.lse.ac.uk/101239/1/Getti
ng_to_know_you._Motivating_cross_understanding_for_team_and_individual_performance.pdf
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Teams Learn Together Perform Better Than Task-Focused Groups
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Teams need to focus on learning, not just doing. When teams focus only on getting a job done, they perform worse than teams that also spend time learning from each other. Groups should be encouraged to think about learning for the future, not just on what they are doing now.