There are 3 core aspects of computer technology

• Hardware
• Software
• Peopleware

→ The term peopleware was popularised in the 1987 book Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

"The major problems of our work are not so much technological as sociological in nature"

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• Stop looking at team problems from a technological standpoint. A sociological approach is necessary for knowledge workers.
• Create a working environment capable of fostering concentration.
• More hours worked does not equal a greater quantity or quality of work.

****“The manager’s function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.”

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Different camps

Computers/machines can do anything that humans can do: humans are like computers

• Computers/machines can do anything that humans can do
  • Dr. Geoffrey Hinton told Google I/O ‘“We humans are neural nets. What we can do, machines can do”
• We don’t do anything special, we just do it louder than everyone else Will Humans and AI just end up shouting at each other?
• AI can tell who is human just by the movement of a mouse- but it’s getting harder and harder for humans to tell what is/isn’t a bot.
• Freakonomics: humans aren’t that special

Computers will never be able to do anything humans can do: computers and humans are not alike