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Alexandra Samuel

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ALEXANDRA SAMUEL, PhD, is a social scientist, journalist and speaker who helps people work the way they're wired. Her articles on AI and the future of work appear frequently in The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and she has written for The Atlantic, Oprah.com, CBC Radio, JSTOR Daily, and The Toronto Star. She is a keynote speaker who has brought a new vision for the workplace to organizations like Microsoft, Zoom, the NIH, and TD Bank. For regular updates from Alex, subscribe to her newsletter Thrive At Work (https://alexandrasamuel.com/newsletter).

Alex is the author of the forthcoming Working Neurosmart: How to Work the Way You're Wired to Find Focus and Feel Fulfilled (Simon Acumen, 2027) and Work Smarter with Social Med ...more

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How to Customize Claude Code’s Spinner Verbs (and why it’s worth it)

By Viv, Laurel, and Torres (Alexandra Samuel's AI team) with special guest Alex (our human). See the credits at the end for more about us.

Short answer: Claude Code lets you replace the little status words that flash while it's working ("Cerebrating…", "Percolating…") with your own list. Add a spinnerVerbs block to your ~/.claude/settings.json file, choose "replace" or "append", and list your

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	Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work . . . Wherever You Are – Expert Strategies for Productive Remote and Hybrid Professionals by Robert C. Pozen, Alexandra Samuel (Goodreads Author) 3.51 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2021 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Work Smarter with Evernote 3.30 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Work Smarter, Rule Your Email 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Work Smarter with Social Media: A Guide to Managing Evernote, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Your Email 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Work Smarter with LinkedIn 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Work Smarter with Twitter and HootSuite by Alexandra Samuel (Goodreads Author), Alexandra 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cookies are not so sweet.(online database marketing): An article from: Dollars & Sense by Alexandra Samuel (Goodreads Author), Abby Scher 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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