Anthropic's Claude account announces a research preview that lets Claude use a user's computer to open apps, navigate browsers and fill in spreadsheets. It is available in Claude Cowork and Claude Code on macOS only.
Lenny Rachitsky describes the fragmented, back-to-back nature of an executive's day and why product managers overestimate how much leaders remember of their pitches. He shares this via a video and a quoted post about Jessica Fain's chief-of-staff pitch to Slack's CPO.
Jessica Fain's best product ideas kept dying, and she couldn't figure out why.
So at eight and a half months pregnant, she pitched @SlackHQ's CPO @aunder on becoming her Chief of Staff. She wanted to see how executive decisions actually get made from the inside.
What she learned changed everything she knew about influencing execs.
People don't realize that an executive's calendar is like a strobe light going off. Budget meeting, a people problem, a legal issue—then your product review. You've been prepping for three weeks. They haven't thought about you since the last meeting. They may not …
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