The Chaos
Chaos: The Blue Blob and the Very Exciting AI Email
Discovery: The most exciting AI announcement email appears to have made the employees nervous. The threads on the discovery investigates the whys.
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Guides
Guide: AI Anxiety Conversation
Use this when a team is nervous, people keep asking whether AI will change their jobs while everyone replies with 'exciting opportunities.' The answer to 'what changes for me on Monday?' should be transparent.
Signal: AI Fear Is Often Work-Design Uncertainty
The public conversation around AI anxiety is now impossible to ignore, many people are quietly wondering whether the next cheerful AI announcement is really about their job, their skills, their team, or the work they thought they understood.
The Chaos
Chaos: The Blue Blob and the Experts Wanted
Discovery: Experts appear to be required from Beginner stage after training but Beginners work is now being done by AI. Find out more...
Guides
Guide: Apprenticeship Survival Guide For AI Work
Use this when students, graduates, trainees, junior employees or career-switchers are using AI tools heavily in work that used to be learned through practice.
Signal: AI Can Speed Up Output And Weaken Apprenticeship
As AI is very good at producing tidy-looking analysis, a workplace can become more productive on paper while slowly reducing the opportunities people need to develop judgement and creativity.
Chaos: The Blue Blob and the Missing Bottom Rung
Discovery: the first rung is the first junior experience step to be figured out. What will be next in this step where AI now sits for this company. Find out more...
Signal: The Missing Job Experience Entry Step
A career ladder without the first rung is not more modern, it is just harder to climb the ladder. Early-career work is where people build judgement by doing small, imperfect, repetitive things.
Guides
Guide: Entry-Level Jobs Ladder Check
A quick career ladder check to help reduce the risk that tomorrow's experts do not arrive with possible knowledge gaps. A good ladder check does not reject AI, it makes sure AI does not accidentally eat or gloss over the practice field.
Chaos: The Blue Blob and the Floating Career Ladder
This company's AI appears to have removed the first rung of the ladder in this room, leaving what appears to be a floating ladder with no foundation. Where will this discovery lead us?
Signal: Before AI Removes Jobs, Map The Work
In many ways, the job description and title were likely mostly fictional, do not automate the job away to AI before checking what the humans actually do. The task unbundling may shock you.
Guides
Guide: Job Panic Work Map
No need to panic if you understand at task level what AI is changing. Roles slowly reorganise around what remains, what gets assisted, what gets automated, and what becomes more important because AI made the easy bit cheaper.