knowledge work

6 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 9, 2025 by Drew Houston · across every show →

Everything said about knowledge work, oldest first

Jan 9, 2025 positive
Opinion
Houston: Decoupling work from location is knowledge work's biggest shift since 1959
“This idea of our, we're finally decoupling work from the physical, our physical location. It's a big deal. It's probably one of the biggest changes to knowledge work in our lifetimes, or even since Drucker coined that term knowledge work in 1959.”
Drew Houston Jan 9, 2025 ▶ 1:07:24 Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)
May 2, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Schoening: AI for Knowledge Work Will Reach 'Good Enough' Intelligence
“I think for a lot of knowledge work tasks, probably sometime we'll get to good enough. And once you get to good enough, then you can optimize other things. Like they run locally, they're cheaper, they're faster.”
Max Schoening May 2, 2026 ▶ 33:40 AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles | Max Schoening (Notion)
May 2, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Schoening: Modern knowledge work effectively functions as universal basic income
“My take is that we already have universal basic income. It's called knowledge work. And I don't exclude my job from it, but if you really look about at what do we actually need to live and like to be content, it is a lot less than we've built this hierarchy. A…”
Max Schoening May 2, 2026 ▶ 1:08:00 AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles | Max Schoening (Notion)
Aug 30, 2026
Insight
Seshan: Knowledge work AI requires showing intermediate citations and in-progress work
“A lot of work that we have done and have to continue to do is continue to adapt the product to knowledge work, which means way more focus on Making ChatGPT your collaborator, allowing you to see all the in-progress work, see its citations and inputs, help you …”
Tara Seshan Aug 30, 2026 ▶ 1:05:53 AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
Aug 30, 2026
Insight
Seshan: Coding AI allows output verification; knowledge work requires process auditing
“Coding is so output oriented that when you ask it to do a coding task, you can verify whether it did the task correctly or well via tests. You can try it out and see if it works. Like there is a way to validate it based on the output. But knowledge work is dif…”
Tara Seshan Aug 30, 2026 ▶ 1:05:18 AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
Aug 30, 2026
Insight
Seshan: AI products have entered a second era defined by agents
“The second era of these products is clearly working with agents and, you know, primarily has been coding agents. We'd like to bring it to more, more domains, certainly like knowledge work.”
Tara Seshan Aug 30, 2026 ▶ 34:57 AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
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