Jesus fuck, this hit like a tonne of bricks.

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The Era Of The Business Idiot

Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kind of idiot. The

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@octothorpe And this is why they are all obsessed with AI. AI is a reimplementation of those executives and also consultants. It's a bullshit machine that looks like it's making shit happen.
They can't see the problem because they don't see why they are the problem, nor have enough contact with actual workers to realise that it doesn't work like that
@etchedpixels @octothorpe So the world can still be saved (or at least keep the status quo) by replacing the right persons by AI?