Variance, Explained
Colby Kennedy Nesbitt, Cole Napper, Yuyan Sun, Tyler Weeks, Dan RileyWhy people strategies work (or don't)
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Stochastic Parrots, and What Happens when we Automate Creativity
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Do you think you could tell if a piece of art was made by a human or by AI? You’d probably like to think you could.
But a recent study by Andrew Samo and Scott Highhouse found that people couldn’t, at least not any be...
Why can't HR teams get along?
“Time is a flat circle. Everything we have done, or will do, we will do over and over and over again — forever.”
- Rust Cohle, True Detective
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Years ago, I was in an annual planning meeting with the leaders o...
Liberté, Egalité, Productivité
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In 1762, Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote words so radical they sparked the French Revolution: that liberty and equality are fundamental human rights, that “man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” Noble...
Heavy is the Head
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There’s a word I keep hearing in the conversation about AI: judgment.
It feels to me like now that we have lost our monopoly on the word intelligence, we’re reaching for something else to grab onto — something that...
How do you Solve a Problem like Potential?
In Ovid’s telling of the myth of Pygmalion in Metamorphoses, a sculptor carved a statue so divinely beautiful and so lifelike he could scarcely keep himself from believing she was real. He brought her gifts — flowers, shells, smooth stones...
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Organizational Psychologist. Talent Leader. Professional Question-Asker. Views expressed are my own.
Prolific writer, thinker, and podcaster. Directionally Correct Podcast & Newsletter. Data Driven HR Academy. All opinions are my own. datadrivenhracademy.com & colenapper.com
I implement AI strategies in organizations. Here to share how AI is really changing our work, and what that means for the humans doing it.
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” - Jack Kerouac
Dan Riley is an entrepreneur and technologist driven by a relentless optimism and a singular mission: to reinvent the future of work so it’s more human, transparent, and impactful.
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