Ethan Mollick

Wharton professor and author of the One Useful Thing newsletter; a leading writer on AI's practical impact on work and organizations. Author of Making AI Work — Leadership, Lab, and Crowd.

Positions / contributions in the wiki

• Leadership, Lab, and Crowd — his framework for converting individual AI gains into organizational ones.
• Secret Cyborgs — his term for workers who hide their AI use.
• Individual vs Organizational AI Gains — the productivity paradox he documents.
• The Bottleneck Shift — his observation that cheap execution makes "what to do" the scarce input.
• Coins/uses vibework and runs his own informal model evaluations ("vibe benchmarks," e.g. on Manus).

Connections

• One Useful Thing — his newsletter; a recurring source channel.
• Dan Shipper — independently reaches the same "what-to-do is the bottleneck" conclusion (The Bottleneck Shift).
• Every — exemplifies the organizational innovation Mollick prescribes.

Sources

• Making AI Work — Leadership, Lab, and Crowd.