What We Learned This Week | 8-31-25
Top Work Place Trends, How AI in Impacting Employment, How Operations Leaders are Pulling Ahead using AI, Most used AI Apps, and more...
Happy Labor Day Weekend, for those who are in US. Below are some of the articles and podcasts which caught my attention past week. As always, welcome your feedback and ideas.
Articles
Roadmap: Developer Tooling for Software 3.0 | Bessemer Venture Partners | From “Hello, World” to “Hello, AI”: Software engineering has leapt from human–AI collaboration to orchestration — and now toward full autonomy.
The top workplace trends of 2025 | SurveyMonkey | 75+ key statistics on how people are working—and how to help your team get ahead.
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence | Stanford | Since the widespread adoption of generative AI, early-career workers (ages 22-25) in the most AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment even after controlling for firm-level shocks.
Mind the gap: How operations leaders are pulling ahead using AI | McKinsey |AI investments in operations are paying back faster than ever, but leading organizations are pulling away from the rest.
The New Books to Fight Brain Rot | Adam Grant | How to avoid arrogance and find authenticity, build cognitive and social skills, and create a more respectful, more delightful world.
Podcasts/Videos
The top 100 most used AI apps in 2025 | a16z podcast | What are real consumers actually doing with AI today — most used AI-native web and mobile products across the globe.
How 80,000 companies build with AI | Lenny’s Podcast | Why we’re moving from “product as artifact” to “product as organism” and what this means for builders. The death of the org chart: how agents are turning hierarchies into task networks and why “the loop, not the lane” is the new organizing principle.
Why System Integrators are key to AI success | The AI in Business Podcast | How AI infrastructure has evolved into a platform-centric foundation for enterprise transformation.
How to Reengineer your Business Process | DataFramed | The challenges of daily firefighting at work, the principles of dynamic work design, how to improve productivity by addressing real problems, the role of AI in business, the importance of setting clear priorities, and much more.
AI Worker Future | a16z podcast | What exactly is an AI agent, and how will agents change the way we work?
A Book We are Reading in August
Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication | Andrew Brodsky | The essential guide for when (and how best) to use virtual communication tools, from video to instant messaging and everything in between.
A Quote We Are Pondering This Week
"The person who learns the most in any classroom is the teacher. If you really want to learn a topic, then "teach" it. Write a book. Teach a class. Build a product. Start a company. The act of making something will force you to learn more deeply than reading ever will." - James Clear
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