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Yesterday, LinkedIn FINALLY confirmed what we all knew: there's a new algorithmic sheriff in town. Well, it's not so much a sheriff as it is an entire department. At Trust Insights, we've been covering the LinkedIn algorithm for the past two years based on academic papers, engineering content, conference presentati…

What's missing from AI outputs is pride. When you do the work, you take pride in your outputs. When you don't do the work, you don't have any stake in the outputs. It's the difference between a meal you cooked yourself - even if you didn't quite nail it - and a meal from a box or a Doordash. Both will feed you.…

There are five levels of AI enablement now. 1. Done by you: you're doing all the work. You chat with Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and you're copy pasting everything. The entry level. 2. Done with you: you're doing some of the work. Gems, GPTs, projects where some of the work is pre-baked, but a good amount isn't. 3.…

Yesterday, LinkedIn FINALLY confirmed what we all knew: there's a new algorithmic sheriff in town. Well, it's not so much a sheriff as it is an entire department. At Trust Insights, we've been covering the LinkedIn algorithm for the past two years based on academic papers, engineering content, conference presentati…

"You can't manage what you can't measure." This management trope, widely derided (sometimes correctly), is a cornerstone of effective AI management. Here's what I mean. Suppose you were working on a piece of writing, a piece of content, and you wanted to tell AI to aim for better readability. Maybe you wanted it t…

There are five levels of AI enablement now. 1. Done by you: you're doing all the work. You chat with Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and you're copy pasting everything. The entry level. 2. Done with you: you're doing some of the work. Gems, GPTs, projects where some of the work is pre-baked, but a good amount isn't. 3.…