What We Learned This Week | 7-27-25
Seizing the Agentic opportunity, AI's impact on Managers, Building a High Performing Data Teams, How Boards are using AI, AWS NYC event Keynote, and more...
Hope you are enjoying some sun. Below are some of the articles and podcasts which caught my attention past week. As always, welcome your feedback and ideas.
Articles
Seizing the Agentic AI Advantage | McKinsey | A CEO playbook to solve the gen AI paradox and unlock scalable impact with AI agents
How AI Is Redefining Managerial Roles | HBR | Using gen AI can flatten the corporate hierarchy and streamline productivity by freeing managers from some tasks of project coordination—but first companies must determine what to automate, and who will benefit the most
Unlocking Economic Opportunity | Open AI | A First Look at ChatGPT-Powered Productivity
Building a High-Performing Data Team | BVP | Essential questions about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams
How Boards are Using AI | HBR | They’re harnessing it to help directors prepare, debate, and decide
Podcasts/Videos
AWS Summit New York City 2025 | AWS | In this Keynote, Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Agentic AI, Amazon Web Services, discusses the power of imagination with AWS's cutting-edge tools
Winning the AI Race & Reindustrialization | Sourcery | How AI is driving reindustrialization across mining, energy, and manufacturing, why pricing—not capital—is the real bottleneck in U.S
Anthropic CEO: AI’s Potential | Big Technology Podcast | Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a raw, unfiltered conversation about AI's potential, its stakes, and the source of his outspokenness
Dwarkesh Patel: AI Timelines, Productivity, and Global Stagnation | Why experts overestimate AI capabilities, The continual learning bottleneck in current models, Japan's economic crash and global productivity stagnation, Spaced repetition and effective learning strategies
Building Agents to Save Time | My First Million | Learn from Zapier founder Wade Foster about how to build AI Agents
A Book We are Reading in July
The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines | Matt Beane | A technology researcher shows how AI and robots threaten the traditional skill-development model and outlines how challenge, complexity, and connection remain essential for building expertise
A Quote We Are Pondering This Week
"As far as I can tell, every great advance — whether in an individual life or the world at large — has come from dreams and attempts. Devise more dreams. Make more attempts.”
- James Clear
Upcoming Interesting Data & AI Conferences
Ai4 2025 | 8-11 to 8/13 | Vegas
Northeast Utilities Credit and Collections | 9/10 - 9/12 | Atlantic City, NJ
Boston AI Week 2025 | 9/29 - 10/3 | Boston
UA Week 2025 | 10/28-10/30 | Austin
AWS re:invent 2025 | 12/1-12/5 | Vegas
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