TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

For the longest time, a lot of the most interesting innovations have been focused on so-called “knowledge workers” — those who typically get salaries, use computers and desks, and might well be paid much higher overall. Hourly workers, however, have come into focus more recently for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If the pandemic has made us completely rethink the way we work, that we — the swath of workers at home in pajamas popping into meetings on Zoom — leaves out a massive chunk of the workforce that continues to show up for work in-person, every time.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Building an automation project can seem daunting, but it’s simply a process of applying technology to a problem. Think of automation as a tool to help your team focus on the uniquely human skills of creativity, relationship building, and critical thinking that only they can bring to their fundraising roles. Ready to Get Started?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The problem that Business Canvas has identified and is building solutions to target is the challenge faced by people who are tasked with ingesting information and producing writing or decisions based on that: lawyers, entrepreneurs, researchers, students and communications workers like journalists among them.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

“T he problem that we’re really addressing is that there’s teams and companies in just about every industry who execute all kinds of repetitive business processes e very day– and to be clear, i t’s business processes executed by humans,” Zeitworks CEO and co-founder Jay Bartot told me.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We talk a lot these days about the future of work and the proliferation of new and better tools for distributed workforces, but companies focused on developing fleet management software — even if they have not really been viewed as “tech startups” — have been working on this problem for many years already.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond. Looked at on a wider scale, this is actually a big problem.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2021

We end up solving yesterday’s problems too late instead of tackling tomorrow’s problems before someone else does. “If We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” If we are the problem, then we are also the solution. Staats : Understanding the process is vital for learning.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. “Measuring engineering efficiency is a known, large and growing problem that’s now become solvable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

But it’s reasonable to say that knowledge workers in particular devote a sizeable chunk of their workdays to sifting through data, whether to find basic contact info or domain-specific files. “This growing problem was not only destroying productivity, but also sapping energy and detracting from the employee experience.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

At a product lab called Adept that emerged from stealth today with $65 million in funding, they are — in the founders’ words — “build[ing] general intelligence that enables humans and computers to work together creatively to solve problems.” ” It’s lofty stuff.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been built for what Huffman thinks is the future: digital knowledge workers, a term he uses to describe independent tech workers who freelance for different companies or gigs. The early adopters are independent workers who want to work or advise for a product team.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

But the problem, he said, was that although IBM did have internal job boards, it was hard to see how his expertise mapped on to the opportunities that were available. And that is before you consider the interface or any of the other aspects of user experience of using these tools.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy posted on X that Grok 3 exhibited sharp reasoning skills and was able to resolve some complex problems. AI labs are only now learning how to scale up the computing power that thinking models use after being presented with a problem. Flash Thinking. Brookings, a D.C.-based

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2019

We end up solving yesterday’s problems too late instead of tackling tomorrow’s problems before someone else does. “If We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” If we are the problem, then we are also the solution. Staats : Understanding the process is vital for learning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long. On the Mac side, Apple controls the hardware, so there never is a problem with it. Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers. And, guess what?

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

There has been an interesting wave of startups emerging in recent years building out the tech stack used by people working in the front lines and in the field, a shift after years of knowledge workers getting most of the attention from startups building a new generation of apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. Perhaps the biggest problem for blogging is the time it takes to read and write blogs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

AI enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities AI technology can process substantial amounts of data in ways, unlike humans. For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Grameen has a team of community knowledge workers who go out in the fields of Uganda and collect agricultural information on their mobile devices. How NGOs Are Using Data Maps to Communicate Problems (Huffinton Post). From Around the Web. 5 Mapping Tools That Strengthen Your Strategy: Making Data Matter (ZeroDivide.org).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

Then there's the problem of naming your tags. " Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters. The person uses a combination of machine automation and topic-specific expert knowledge. Your tag or mine? Without a standard set of published, prompted tags, chaos could reign.

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Neon CRM

MAY 30, 2023

Before moving onto different types of systems and must-have features, let’s start with the problems that your membership management tool should solve for you. Manually tracking every single interaction involved with building and sustaining a membership program can pose lots of problems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Our fund targets two primary themes: B2B vertical SaaS and SaaS-enabled businesses/marketplaces, and broadly what we call knowledge worker tools — DevOps, cybersecurity and other typically product-led horizontal applications. What is happening in Miami now that you’re most excited to fund? New York is a great example.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

We want to solve the problem that people spend so much time at their jobs doing boring, repetitive stuff that can be automated to free up space and time for fun and interesting work,” says Gero Keil, co-founder and CEO. This, of course, is where machine learning come into play. “We

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

I think it’s a really different problem that we’re each trying to solve. And so it’s just a very different business model, and a very different problem to solve. And actually, the fact that we today think that ads is the main thing is the problem. No, that is a problem we believe we can solve and are working to solve.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

It is increasingly valuable for knowledge workers across all industries to use data to problem solve and make decisions,” said Dr. Chandrasekhar Buddha, Chief Coordinating Officer, AICTE, Ministry of Education, Government of India. “We are happy to collaborate with Tableau to bring data skills into higher education nationwide.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

It is increasingly valuable for knowledge workers across all industries to use data to problem solve and make decisions,” said Dr. Chandrasekhar Buddha, Chief Coordinating Officer, AICTE, Ministry of Education, Government of India. “We are happy to collaborate with Tableau to bring data skills into higher education nationwide.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

We want to democratize this process with a truly horizontal product that every knowledge worker can use, and we’re excited to have Accel join us on the next phase of our journey.”. So, these are some of the problems that we’re trying to solve.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Build more efficient workflows for knowledge workers Across industries, companies are driving early generative AI use cases by automating and simplifying time-intensive processes for knowledge workers. Then, the LLM would generate a final, summarized answer for the customer.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 21, 2025

OpenAI is quietly seeding expectations for a "PhD-level" AI agent that could operate autonomously at the level of a "high-income knowledge worker" in the near future. A few researchers at Anthropic have, over the past year, had a part-time obsession with a peculiar problem. Can Claude play Pokmon?

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Ars Technica

MARCH 7, 2025

Other reportedly planned agents include a "high-income knowledge worker" assistant at $2,000 monthly and a software developer agent at $10,000 monthly. The key claim is that these models can tackle problems that typically require years of specialized academic training.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

They use the same simple recipe that baked U2: Generate thousands of programming and math problems. truly is a drop-in replacement for some (20%) of knowledge workers and a game-changing assistant for most others. Nova is a proper drop-in replacement for nearly all knowledge workers.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The research team surveyed 319 "knowledge workers" basically, folks who solve problems for work, though definitions vary about their experiences using generative AI products in the workplace. This isn't enormously surprising.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

As the world shut down in March 2020, anxious knowledge workers barricaded themselves at home, scrubbing produce with soap. The problem was that deals depended on relationships, but relationships were fallible, human, subject to emotional attachment. Illustrations by Emily Lopez for The Verge. Kaplan didn’t know what to believe.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 23, 2025

Also, this type of restructuring may have little benefit for shift workers with long hours. Even among knowledge workers, there’s a risk that cutting a full day would simply result in employees scrambling to cram their work into a shorter week.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2025

We end up solving yesterdays problems too late instead of tackling tomorrows problems before someone else does. We cant just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers. If we are the problem, then we are also the solution. We look to fix irrelevant weaknesses instead of playing to our strengths.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Rather than displacing highly skilled professionals, AI is setting the stage for knowledge workers to transition from individual contributors into high-leverage managers, directing teams of AI agents that can execute tasks with breathtaking efficiency. The best thing you can do? Start learning. Its about knowing enough to question it.

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