Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne

When chasing metrics that reward any type of AI adoption, it’s easy to miss the workslop tax that is being paid underneath the surface.

Last year, BetterUp Labs and the Stanford Social Media Lab introduced the phenomenon of workslop:

I’ve always liked this colorful expression to describe the critical, anxious inner monologue that can drive our thinking.

For anyone doing creative work, the committee is a barrier. It can stymie whatever creative ideas we’re working on.

It’s hard to fully mute the committee, but we can create environments that help turn the volume down.

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I drew this cartoon thinking about how much panic and FOMO has been setting the pace and tenor of AI adoption. No one wants to be left behind.

And that’s led to some of the most disjointed decisions we’ve seen, like banking on business growth by laying off staff and assuming AI will “automagically” fill the gap. CNBC

This cartoon was partly inspired by the whiplash approach to AI writing at LinkedIn. A few years ago, they indiscriminately pushed AI tools, offering to draft a full post after typing just 30 words.

Surprise, surprise, this resulted in a lot of AI slop on the platform. A recent study from Pangram Labs