Adoption Curves Soar; Interface Friction Stays Flat

Stanford HAI’s 2025 AI Index economy section documents sharp jumps in organizational generative AI use alongside ongoing debates about measured impact. OpenAI’s State of Enterprise AI 2025 tells a parallel story with usage multiples and time-saved surveys. Meanwhile Microsoft Research’s CSCW interruption study and UC Irvine’s CHI workplace distractions paper keep reminding us: every switch imposes refocus cost.

Procurement success is not behavior change

Boards celebrate AI adoption curves; employees feel tab fatigue. Harvard Business Review coverage summarized by Inc on CEO email time is old but the mechanism persists—executive attention sets norms, and norms set how often pings cascade.

Close the gap inside the thread

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• Distill to Three distill.to.three@via.email for steering decks pulled from chaotic threads.
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• Summarize Hiring Pipeline summarize.hiring.pipeline@via.email when people data lives as forwarded exports rather than a single dashboard.

Cluster

Read context switching costs, productivity beyond three tools, and agent managers in the inbox.

Instrument one team for a week

Compare minutes on task when analysis stays in-email versus copy-out to a chat tab. If you cannot measure it, you are not serious about adoption curves—you are serious about press releases.