In the most recent AI and automation report from the Brookings Institute, the think tank cites research saying that AI will replace up to 70% of some job types, especially entry-level jobs. How do you make your career more resistant to being automated out of existence?
One of the key skills we cite often in our talks about AI is algorithmic thinking, a highly-sought skill in today’s marketplace.
What is algorithmic thinking?
Regular people look at a problem and try to solve it. Very often, they solve an instance of the problem, and then a day, a week, a month later, they’re solving the same problem again.
Algorithmic thinkers look at a problem and try to build a system to permanently solve it, to automate the problem itself out of existence.
For example, at another company I worked at, time tracking was a highly-manual chore that required crazy amounts of time and human effort to do, largely because the system for time tracking was an antiquated piece of software designed for manufacturing. As a result, a full 10-15% of everyone’s time every month was spent on what was manual labor – low value, low impact work.
This past week, Katie and I were discussing implementing time tracking for Trust Insights. However, we already have a time tracking system of sorts – Google Calendar, built right into our office software. Instead of buying additional software, we put on our algorithmic thinking hats. How could we solve time tracking using a system, rather than manual labor, to capitalize on a system and data we already have, already use, and is intuitive?
The answer: Google Calendar also has an API. Instead of manually writing timesheets, we just export the data from our calendars via the API and some custom code written in R. Instant time tracking with no additional purchases, no additional overhead, and most of all, not creating additional per-person work that’s low value and low impact. Solve the problem once, permanently, with a system instead of re-solving the problem every week.
What problems do you repeatedly solve? What tasks do you do where you know, deep in your gut, there’s a better way of doing? Find those problems and architect system-level solutions for them. That’s how you’ll create impact and value – and protect your job from AI. Instead of having your job automated away, proactively automate individual tasks with you as the conductor of the orchestra of machines, the manager of your “workers” – systems and processes that deliver impact and value. You’ll be irreplaceable.
In this week’s Bright Idea, a question and an answer. When will people be most out of the office this summer? Each year, we forecast using predictive analytics when people will be searching most for terms like “outlook out of office” and “gmail autoresponder”. The data shows us week by week when people will pay the least attention to us.
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