Cal Newport

For a lot of people, it's exaggerating the problems that already exist.

Now there's a term for this that comes out of a Harvard Business Review article from last year.

They call it work slop, as they put together as one word.

And they have some pretty compelling data on this.

So WorkSlop is AI-generated work products in the knowledge work sector.

So like emails, reports, and PowerPoints or what have you that are generated quickly by AI

but they're so low quality that they actually, it's very difficult to, they make everyone else's jobs harder.

This seems to be, this is like the defining aspect of work slop.

It's quick to produce, but it's so low value that it actually no real progress is made.

So like you get a work slop email from, you know, your boss or whatever.

And like, this isn't useful to me.

It's this weird wordy thing that's broken up into sections and it doesn't get to the core of the problem we have to solve.

So you made that email quick,

but in the bigger scheme of things, we made very little progress towards what we want to do.

Or you put together a work slot PowerPoint presentation so that you would have something at the meeting, but now we're spending 20 minutes looking at this nonsense and nothing, it's not helping us.

It's not helping us actually do things.

So this is what's happening, or at least my fear.

I mean, the reality is most people aren't using these tools in the office.

I mean, let's just set the reality, right?

So, but for the people who are using them right now, which is a healthy percentage, but it's not- Do you know what the numbers are?