Murphy Randle

Existential Dread

Yesterday, like many of you, I read about Jack Dorsey announcing the end of employment for 4,000 people at Blocks after a strong year of profit increases. It's another splash in the pool of anxiety engineers and creatives alike are swimming in as we watch the astoundingly fast evolution of AI agents. Rumination How do we process this? Thousands of our career-siblings loosing the employment that our society is structured to make non-optional with a…

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Emotionally navigating industry layoffs and AI evolution, plus a call for balance

Explore the impact of AI on employment, creativity, and sustainability after recent tech layoffs. Discover hope and new opportunities ahead.

Murphy Randle
Feb 27 at 11:51pmJetpack
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@murphydev it doesn’t help that the AI has become a convenient excuse for layoffs (Blocks is, in fact, bleeding money due to Dorsey’s going all-in on Bitcoin). have we been “replaced” by AI or is it just a smokescreen to hide poor management decisions?