Jeffrey T. Hancock

Today, I've got two guests at once.

Professor Jeff Hancock, professor of communication at Stanford, and founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab, and Dr. Kate Niederhoffer, chief scientist at BetterUp.

Together, Jeff and Kate coined workslop, AI-generated content that masquerades as good work, in a viral Harvard Business Review article last year that landed the term among Merriam-Webster's words of the year.

In this episode, Jeff and Kate reveal why over half of workers admit to producing workslop, how it can cost a large company tens of millions of dollars a year, and their new concept of relationslipping.

We look forward to it.

Thanks, John.

[upbeat music] What a fun episode today with Professor Jeff Hancock and Dr. Kate Niederhoffer.

In it, Jeff and Kate shared how work slop differs from ordinary sloppy work because it shifts the burden onto the recipient, triggering confusion, then annoyance and anger, then an interpersonal tax where people no longer want to work with the sender.

And I've definitely done my 1,000 hours since.

Met and had lunch with Jeff Hancock.

Yeah.

I mean, once you have skin in the game, then the homework becomes much easier.