Hacker News with Generative AI: Knowledge Work

Think like a Plumber, not a CEO (thelsweekly.substack.com)
The other day I caught myself saying, “I’m just not in the zone today”. I also stumbled on a book that promised to help me “think like a CEO”. Both these ideas sound intuitive but they mask a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of knowledge work.
What layoffs teach us about technical leadership (chelseatroy.com)
In March I published a piece called How do we evaluate people for their technical leadership? It demonstrates (I hope) why production line metrics shouldn’t be copied and pasted onto knowledge work. Then, in a cunning move I ripped from email marketers, I reach the titular question at the very end of the piece and promise to come back to it.1 For several months, I don’t.
Cognitive Load for Knowledge Work (mattwynne.net)