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Alexandra Samuel

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in Canada

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http://www.alexandrasamuel.com

Twitter

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Genre

Business, Nonfiction, Self Help

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March 2012

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ALEXANDRA SAMUEL is a journalist and speaker who writes about AI, technology and the future of work. She is a regular contributor to the The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and her work has appeared frequently in The Atlantic, Oprah.com, CBC Radio, JSTOR Daily, and The Toronto Star.

Alex is the author of Work Smarter with Social Media (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015) and the co-author (with Robert Pozen) of Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work...Wherever You Are (Harper Business, 2021). Her award-winning documentary/musical podcast Me + Viv follows her real-life experiment with creating an AI coach, informed by world experts on the risks and opportunities of AI.

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Alexandra Samuel's Blog

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
	Working Neurosmart: How to Work the Way You're Wired to Find Focus and Feel Fulfilled 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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“This book is for people who get too much email, which is a bit like saying, “This book is for people who have email.”
― Alexandra Samuel, Work Smarter, Rule Your Email

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