AI on Schaver.comhttps://schaver.com/tags/ai/Recent content in AI on Schaver.comHugoenmark.schaver@gmail.com (Mark Schaver)mark.schaver@gmail.com (Mark Schaver)Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:36:57 -0400Maybe there's hope for old-school reporters who still use the telephonehttps://schaver.com/posts/2026/maybe-theres-hope-for-old-school-reporters-who-still-use-the-telephone/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:36:57 -0400mark.schaver@gmail.com (Mark Schaver)https://schaver.com/posts/2026/maybe-theres-hope-for-old-school-reporters-who-still-use-the-telephone/<p>Adam Grant, a Wharton management professor and organizational psychologist, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-new-ways-to-thrive-at-work-now-according-to-adam-grant-4d3ad022?st=9z6Xot" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">quoted in the WSJ</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Pre-AI, what was rewarded and valued and promoted was how much information you had in your head; we&rsquo;re now in an environment where information is a commodity. So the differentiating skill set or capability is: Can you recognize patterns? Can you synthesize lots of disparate pieces of information? Can you figure out what perspectives are credible and which ones aren&rsquo;t?</p>