every company needs a cassandra

kept by eddie aug 11

The article proposes an AI agent named Cassandra that acts as an organizational dissenter by detecting groupthink and voicing contrarian views only when socially costly for humans to express.

Things I want to say to my boss
Workers anonymously confess to bosses that burnout, performative care, and profit-at-all-costs leadership have destroyed trust, leaving them disengaged and self-protective.
also on #workplace-culture, #organizational-health
Kalshi’s C.E.O. Isn’t Interested in Management Advice
Tarek Mansour, Kalshi’s MIT-educated CEO and co-founder, rejects conventional management advice to maintain a mathematical, objective approach in building his prediction market company.
also on #decision-making
Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth Is Transforming How Meta Works - WSJ
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth is driving a workforce transformation by requiring employees to submit keystroke data for AI training and pushing costly initiatives like the metaverse.
also on #workplace-culture
Are Prediction Markets Good for Anything?—Asterisk
Despite billions in volume, Polymarket and Kalshi prediction markets produce useful forecasts mainly on high-profile risks, while AI chatbots may soon replace them as the primary source of probabilistic information.
also on #decision-making
Shared intelligence for your team.
Zapier is building a shared AI layer for teams that combines knowledge management, a personal assistant grounded in company data, and workflows across 9,000+ apps, currently in beta.
also on Jira, Slack