I am really interested in how AI will foster (or not) a culture of communication in our workplaces. To bring in an idea that really excited me from last monthâs book, âCo-Intelligence,â AI offers people equitable access to polished writing. In a former life (actually like 4 lives ago), I taught primarily English language learners entering college. So many of them were bright people full of good ideas whose language background stood in the way of their ability to articulate themselves - and REALLY stood in the way of their professors and native English speaker peers taking their ideas seriously.
Also âSupercommunicatorsâ was my first encounter with the research on stereotype threat, and the idea has all the resonance of recognition when I think about those students. I saw so many times how my students shrank when they felt inferior, and blossomed when they felt listened to. I got very excited about how passionately they might express their ideas if language was no object, and got excited too for my non-native speaker colleagues in my role now.
So I am thrilled at the idea that writing in English falls away as a barrier in this brave new world. In my current life, we just brought on an absolutely brilliant new proposal manager, with a dazzling vision for what proposals can be. She is straight from Central America but English doesnât stand in her way at all now. She has a work ethic of full-engagement attack and a fascinating outsiderâs perspective on what weâre selling, and we are the ones who are lucky to have her. I canât imagine the last 6 months without her.
Maybe a tangent, but written communication that bypasses bias and shredded self-confidence might really transform our workplaces and who gets to be heard.
What a beautiful example of the intersection of these two books! There's so much (valid) talk about the negative effects AI will have on the artistic world (diluting, devaluing human artistic nature and originality), but there are some incredible up sides as well, as you've just articulated.
I am really interested in how AI will foster (or not) a culture of communication in our workplaces. To bring in an idea that really excited me from last monthâs book, âCo-Intelligence,â AI offers people equitable access to polished writing. In a former life (actually like 4 lives ago), I taught primarily English language learners entering college. So many of them were bright people full of good ideas whose language background stood in the way of their ability to articulate themselves - and REALLY stood in the way of their professors and native English speaker peers taking their ideas seriously.
Also âSupercommunicatorsâ was my first encounter with the research on stereotype threat, and the idea has all the resonance of recognition when I think about those students. I saw so many times how my students shrank when they felt inferior, and blossomed when they felt listened to. I got very excited about how passionately they might express their ideas if language was no object, and got excited too for my non-native speaker colleagues in my role now.
So I am thrilled at the idea that writing in English falls away as a barrier in this brave new world. In my current life, we just brought on an absolutely brilliant new proposal manager, with a dazzling vision for what proposals can be. She is straight from Central America but English doesnât stand in her way at all now. She has a work ethic of full-engagement attack and a fascinating outsiderâs perspective on what weâre selling, and we are the ones who are lucky to have her. I canât imagine the last 6 months without her.
Maybe a tangent, but written communication that bypasses bias and shredded self-confidence might really transform our workplaces and who gets to be heard.
What a beautiful example of the intersection of these two books! There's so much (valid) talk about the negative effects AI will have on the artistic world (diluting, devaluing human artistic nature and originality), but there are some incredible up sides as well, as you've just articulated.