What Are We Optimising For?
Firstly, hello again.
This is Jane, the writer of the CVB newsletter. I've just added a voice memo
Why this newsletter. Why now?
I think the simplest answer is that I've spent most of my life collecting patterns.
Collecting stories. Conversations.
Smooth is the warning sign
Sharon Stone says AI is a cover band. At best.
What hooked me wasn't the burn. It was
We cut the wrong thing
💡A note before we start: this issue references boards, executives and departments — because that's where I've
The gap between saying yes and meaning it
There was a founder I worked with earlier in my career. Retail brand. Smart, articulate, genuinely passionate about what they&
What's your 53%?
I started my career figuring out what made global brands irreplaceable whilst working as a strategist in Seoul. Not just
The expert in the room
I've been sitting with my relationship with words lately. The ones I love. The ones I bristle at.
The door we keep slamming
We've collapsed every conversation into two positions.
You're in or you're out. With us
I am saying it anyway
I want to name something I have rarely named out loud.
Depression. My experience of it, starting in my early
I am not what I do. I am me. And I can do something new.
That might be the clearest thing I've read on the fear and the opportunity of AI. Liz Fosslien