Rachel Feintzeig
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1,709 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2019
last heard Nov 2024
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I think being nice at work is always a good principle, as long as you don't let it veer into people pleasing.
But this idea that we're just going to kind of be magically propelled by a system that is there to just make sure that we're continuing to rise in lockstep is probably not
a good expectation.
Adam Alter, the professor who I interviewed, talked about how, especially here in the West, we have such an allegiance to science and medicine.
And those are obviously great things, but they've created in us this expectation that there's just not going to be that much change, that we can control the world around us.
And then we're kind of flabbergasted when we find that that's not the case.
I like this idea of the squiggly career.
An author that I talked to coined this phrase that you're moving in all different directions and you're thinking, what do I want to be known for?
Not just rising in lockstep to that next promotion that's directly above you.
It's actually quite wise to diversify a little bit so that you have different skills that can be applied in different ways so you're not left in a really tough spot if something above you goes away.
AI especially seems to be having some impact.
It's still early days, but I talked to a researcher who co-authored a working paper and found that AI is flattening hierarchies.
We're seeing more kind of skilled tech workers, younger, educated tech workers being hired.
straight out of school to fill the bottom ranks of companies and then less of a need for middle managers, which then of course cuts off some of that room to grow.
This idea that AI makes data available to people in all corners in the company and the CEO may not need all these middle managers running around communicating back to him or her.
AI might be able to do some of that for them.
Yeah, I talked to a lot of people about what this felt like, and I mostly heard from people that it was oftentimes terrifying.
I talked to a vet who had just climbed and climbed, and...
It's not to say that the climbing isn't hard or doesn't take a lot of work, but this idea that there was some comfort in it too, that he knew what the next step was going to be.
And then he reached this moment where a job above him that he thought he was kind of a shoo-in for, the job ended up going away.
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