Welcome back! And if it's your first time here, thank you for joining us and welcome to The Frequency.  At Rebel 75, we believe that culture isn't events or initiatives, it's infrastructure. The Frequency is our monthly collection of our insights, resources, and provocations that we share with our community (y'all) to support the work you do everyday to build healthy teams and stay human while doing it.  As you dive in, you'll notice we look a little different. Rebel is getting a glow up. Rest assured, we didn't rebrand because we got bored. Like many small businesses, we're learning - and we're learning out loud. It's a beautiful thing when what you're building reveals itself, and you have the chance to sharpen your vision. We're starting small, but stay… tuned. (pun intended)  Huge shout out to Luke Dorny at Cream Co Studio for the new Logo! We love you Luke!  |
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Every month, one topic gets our full attention. We'll bring you the reading, the thinking, and our honest read on it. Fair warning: we're more interested in better questions than clean answers. |
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We're rolling around in the impact of AI on work. Not just what work we're doing. But on HOW work happens.    Well, see, the thing is, as we roll around more and more in the dialog around AI and how work is (or isn't) being reshaped around it, it's hard not to see the potential nuggets of reality in Jenny's story.    Work that used to take weeks now shows up in hours. People walk into meetings with something built—not a concept, but something that looks finished. A prototype, a report, a presentation. Built by one. To be relied on by many. And potentially with the context held by very few - if any.  How quickly things can become “real” has changed with the introduction of AI into organizations. But the way that the work happens, and more importantly, the way that work becomes meaningful - sustained, traceable, reliable, and profitable - for your company, your team, and your customers, hasn't evolved to meet the moment.   So, our final piece for April challenges us to examine this question: How do we reshape the work that “holds everything together” so that we're not reacting to the impact of AI on our organizations, but we're using our very human judgement to shape how we integrate this technology meaningfully?  |
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New Read from Rebel 75: Everything is faster. Nothing feels simpler. |
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FINE TUNING Here are some things worth a watch or a read on this topic |
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Not every signal announces itself. Some show up as a hum in the background — a pattern, a tension, a question getting louder. Here's what we're watching for this month's Tuned In topic. |
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In conversations with our clients about AI, we're hearing things that are causing the record to scratch. We see these as moments to pause. Ask hard questions - like “Why” or “To what end” or “How”? They may not have an answer or an immediate solution. The conversation is the point. Here are a few worth listening for… - AI adoption as a performance goal for you or your team
- Reports turned around in a fraction of the previous time - without clear sources, especially by a single person
- “So, I asked Claude…”
- We're going to be faster and/or more efficient…
Something worth mentioning - everyone has anxiety around the impact of AI right now. There is tremendous value in letting that pressure out - and you might just learn something really interesting about your team and their perspective on the business, their work, or the world. It's ok not to have all the answers. But please have the conversation. Â |
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Wondering what to do now? Tiny Rebellions™ build awareness and move to action — quickly and quietly. Each month, we give you one small, well-placed act tied to what we're tuned into. No grand gestures. Just intention, applied. |
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Awareness In your next leadership conversation, pay attention to what isn’t being said. - Who is quietly connecting dots across teams?
- Where are assumptions being smoothed over just to keep things moving?
- What feels like it’s “working” without anyone quite owning it?
Action The next time the team leverages AI to complete a significant piece of work, use it as an opportunity to ask:  “What relationships or activities did we bypass in the creation of this work by using AI?” Use it as an opportunity to learn.  If you're feeling bold, your follow up question might be - “Did we leave anyone out of the process that might create unintended consequences later?”  |
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Leadership is a craft. So is quilting. And cooking. And whatever we're obsessed with this month. The Mixing Board is where we share what's on our radar — the book, the art, the thing that has nothing and everything to do with the work. Come curious. |
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What's craft, what's slop, and who decides? There’s a lot of noise right now about AI and creative work—what counts as “real,” what counts as “human,” and what gets dismissed as slop. We’ve been using machines to shape creative work for a long time—spell check and grammar tools, photo editing software, music mastering—but we rarely question it.  Until we do.  The backlash around Shy Girl isn’t about plagiarism—it’s about authorship, editorial support, and how much of the work can be attributed to the person presenting it.  So where do we actually draw the line—and why are we comfortable with machine intervention in some forms of craft, but not others? |
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Consider two different perspectives on the issues of creativity and AI: |
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Thanks for reading! We help organizations stop treating culture like a side project and start treating it like operating infrastructure — through small, intentional changes that shift entrenched patterns from the inside out. Want to build team a team culture that can thrive even turbulent moments? Check us out at rebel75.com |
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