but let's not fall into the fallacy that AI will give us back our time, that free time that we've made will be inevitably be filled more by more activity.
If we don't address the underlying pattern/compulsion/incentive/pressure to produce/achieve/be more it's the same endless red queen effect/human Jevon's paradox that we are stuck in.
Thanks, I do agree to a degree. I think this difference in nonprofits is that they are already wearing so many hats that this provides relief as opposed to huge time savings. Anything that makes the overwhelm more manageable I think should be leveraged.
That question — are our systems setting our people up for success, or are we just cycling through goodwill? — should be printed and taped to every nonprofit CEO’s laptop.
I’m the Technology & Innovation Lead at a national nonprofit (a title I practically had to beg for… no raise, just responsibility 😅). I pushed for it because I could see what was happening: brilliant, mission-driven people drowning in broken systems and manual workflows. Passion is not a strategy. It’s not infrastructure.
The orgs experimenting right now (prototyping, automating, upskilling) are going to pull ahead. Not because they love shiny tools, but because they’re protecting their people and multiplying their impact.
The ones that ignore this shift? Some won’t survive it. That’s not dramatic. It’s math.
I'd love to connect sometime, seems like you and I are both pretty vocal about this.
- Stephanie Plank, Technology & Innovation Lead at Zero Abuse Project (www.zeroabuseproject.org)
Thanks so much for sharing this, Kyle; I'm going to forward this to friends who could use it. I'm sorry you went through this. There seems to be a general assumption that if you aren't killing yourself at your job, you don't really care.
This was great,
but let's not fall into the fallacy that AI will give us back our time, that free time that we've made will be inevitably be filled more by more activity.
If we don't address the underlying pattern/compulsion/incentive/pressure to produce/achieve/be more it's the same endless red queen effect/human Jevon's paradox that we are stuck in.
Thanks, I do agree to a degree. I think this difference in nonprofits is that they are already wearing so many hats that this provides relief as opposed to huge time savings. Anything that makes the overwhelm more manageable I think should be leveraged.
Kyle, this right here.
That question — are our systems setting our people up for success, or are we just cycling through goodwill? — should be printed and taped to every nonprofit CEO’s laptop.
I’m the Technology & Innovation Lead at a national nonprofit (a title I practically had to beg for… no raise, just responsibility 😅). I pushed for it because I could see what was happening: brilliant, mission-driven people drowning in broken systems and manual workflows. Passion is not a strategy. It’s not infrastructure.
The orgs experimenting right now (prototyping, automating, upskilling) are going to pull ahead. Not because they love shiny tools, but because they’re protecting their people and multiplying their impact.
The ones that ignore this shift? Some won’t survive it. That’s not dramatic. It’s math.
I'd love to connect sometime, seems like you and I are both pretty vocal about this.
- Stephanie Plank, Technology & Innovation Lead at Zero Abuse Project (www.zeroabuseproject.org)
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-plank-b65bb3171
Yip that sounds about right! Eek...
Amazing just sent an invite and excited to connect. Thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for sharing this, Kyle; I'm going to forward this to friends who could use it. I'm sorry you went through this. There seems to be a general assumption that if you aren't killing yourself at your job, you don't really care.
Thanks Matt, yeah it can be tough especially when it is not discussed. Hope this helps others.