Last spring, I was asked to give carreer advice to grad students. And the one thing I told them was: our best skill is our ability to learn difficult things -- it's also the first skill you will lose unless you intentionally don't let yourselves go.

There are a lot of administrative activities I’d happily delegate but the thinking and learning? If that’s the part of your job you’re willing to farm out, go do something else. You’re taking a spot from someone.

Email any European colleague. Guaranteed “On holiday until 10 Jan” automatic response.

Absolutely, though I think there may also need to be a decision that you’re okay with an inability to distinguish between C level understanding and LLM output. Personally, I’ve never cared much about grades for their own sake but still…

I used to not use any of the online proctoring tools, I’m no cop, because my open ended questions meant I didn’t care if people were using outside resources. If an LLM gets you an okay grade though? Now we’re necessarily back to blue books.

At my most recent stand up gig:

Chair trying to provide cover: I don’t think you’d be here getting an award if that was true.

Me: I didn’t say I was good at meeting my goals.

No laughs but I did get exasperated sighs, which is just as rewarding.