Work 2026: AI Adoption, Curiosity, Continuous Learning | Work 20XX Ep56

Not only are you going to have a lower cost of living, but that that's going to open up a higher quality of life which just makes you a better and more complete human being as a whole. People get more time back and they get more money. They are able to do things that they may not be able to do in other cities. Like open businesses, get involved in boards, contribute to the community. And we really see that coming to life in awesome ways with Tulsa Remote. - Justin Harlan

I realized I really love traveling. I really love meeting people from different cultures. And I wanted to structure my life in a way that lets me do that. I wanted to give other people the opportunity to do that. So I thought I could build a great company, I could give people the opportunity to have flexibility back with their lives. - Zach Boyette

I coined the phrase vibe officing because I think we’re at this moment where technology should be able to help us be more flowy through the built environment, to seek things that we need for ourselves. or to be with others and maybe we go to our own office, maybe we go to some kind of third place, maybe one day we’re taking autonomous vehicles because I see Waymo’s driving around right outside. - Phil Kirschner

So many things have changed at the same time, which you know so much about in terms of AI and how this tech driven world and operations is changing how we work, not the other way around. - Sophie Wade

So that's the four levels of this. The learning culture, team orientation, outcomes, orientation and what's your talent strategy. - Brian Elliott

We teach how to build exposure and influence across distance. I used to frame it around the humans that we need exposure to and to influence. But now with AI, we need to think about how we build our exposure to the AI tools that our companies are using to catalog our skills... AI determining skill set on your behalf, you might be getting left out of opportunities. - Sacha Connor

Let's first acknowledge that there's all sorts of people, great thought leaders, really the best experts on a remote work are here physically in one location. So there's clearly value in being together and spending quality time face to face. - Ryan Anderson

I was surprised by, how quickly people really got on board. People really understood and they really wanted this. They needed this resource. And so they bought in and they supported it, and they put their information in it. And they started using the search tool. It was kind of glorious. - “JJ” Jessica Reeder

One of the biggest issues that he would see is that these leadership teams were never leadership teams. They were a group of leaders. - Mark Cruth