ChatGPT and the Role of Technology in the Mental Health Crisis

On Monday I wrote an “Open Letter to the Modern Leader” on the Chasing Psychological Safety series and I left it there, “unperturbed” by other writing on Tuesday or Wednesday -which are usually my other days to publish in the newsletters- just to see if its reach expands and it -hopefully- lands in the hearts of even more leaders. It didn’t. That’s not how LinkedIn works. LinkedIn wants the noise, the ruckus, and the volume, not the value of the content.

One of the reasons why I didn’t publish more - except on Patreon and you can subscribe there if you like- is that I’m in full-blown writing mode these days. The book is weeks away from needing to be finished and I am frantically trying to get it there.

The process in itself is very Kanban-y not only because my list-and-concept-obsessed mind needs it, but because, if you stop to think about it, writing about Tech-led Culture is writing about current events. Nearly every chapter touches on what is still unfolding in reality. There’s no distance to most of the events I am describing and putting in a context that I can use for hindsight.

The pandemic is barely in the rear-view mirror, the overall clarity on flexibility and the future of work far from existent, and the workplace crisis from mental health to EQ and leadership still raging. Nothing is done and dusted and we can analyse it in peace with the luxury of knowing how it turned out. But guess what? That’s life - writing this book is no different from having to do anything other that we do while juggling immense amounts of unknowns and uncertainty. So I’m not moaning, just explaining the semblance of the process I am trying to establish.

The hardest part about writing a book on a topic so very close to my heart is that I don’t want you to miss any of the gems that are still appearing on a daily basis. Your Kent Becks, your Gene Kims, they write often and they come to revelations before they do so and my excluding them in something that is as perennial as a book feels like a serious waste.