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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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Work Smarter with Evernote
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Work Smarter, Rule Your Email
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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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