Paul Dietzel II

Increasingly this will be the new job description for a lot of roles, not just coding. We’re clearly moving from a world where agents help us do our work incrementally better or faster, to us helping agents do their work. This turns everyone in one of these positions to that of a manager of a team of agents, instead of an individual contributor with just some added leverage from AI. The biggest areas of impact will be information-heavy jobs, like coding, cybersecurity, legal work, biotech, engineering, and many other fields. And as a result, in these jobs your leverage will begin to be decoupled from the normal ratio of hours spent working to output generated. For essentially the history of knowledge work the main variable you had to play with was hours of work done (assuming fixed level talent/coordination/strategy). Now we’ve separated these variables because agents can parallelize work for us, to in theory execute as much as we need to pull off whatever goal we’re trying to accomplish. The people and organizations that discover this sooner, and orient their operations around it, will see compounding gains in their workflows.

All employees come in 5 levels, choose wisely: Level 1 - tells you there's a problem Level 2 - tells you there's a problem and what caused it Level 3 - tells you there's a problem, what caused it, and options to fix it Level 4 - tells you there's a problem, what caused it, options to fix it, and which one they'd pick Level 5 - tells you there was a problem, what caused it, how they fixed it, and future proof’d it

A great career can’t fix a miserable marriage, but a great marriage can make a hard life feel worth it.

Everyone said "Hey Grok" was impossible on iPhone. Even Grok said Apple keeps wake words for Siri only. So I kept digging, and I found a way. Now I just say "Hey Grok" and Grok Bot voice chat opens. No extra apps, no cost, all built into iOS. How to set it up: 1. Make sure your Grok Bot app is up to date 2. Shortcuts app → + → Add Action → search "Grok Bot" → pick "Start Voice Chat with Bot" 3. Settings → Accessibility → Vocal Shortcuts → Set Up → pick that shortcut → type "Hey Grok" and say it 3 times 4. In the shortcut's details, turn on "Allow Running When Locked" If your phone is locked, iOS asks for one tap first. If Face ID already unlocked it, it's fully hands-free.

We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech! Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs. This is a GPT3 moment for speech.

It’s funny, you always think about how many kids you ‘want’ to have in the abstract. ‘3 or 4 feels right. Idk maybe 5 feels too much.’ We have 4 little ones under 6 - our newest little girl’s name is Clare. I might have told you in a previous life that I only ever wanted 2 or 3 kids. But that’s not how it actually happens. Kids aren’t numbers in the abstract. The real question is this ‘would you rather have a world where Clare exists or not?’ And then it’s not even close. Of course. Here’s to as many more Clares as the Lord will give us.

We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa

Grok Bot can now use Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, and more apps on your phone. Rolling out now on iOS and Android.