While it’s a truism that there’s been more fiction written in Excel than Word, true epics belong the oral tradition. @davekarpf.bsky.social with this banger on gap between claim and reality at OpenAI. Almost like every professor banging on about “critical reasoning skills” may be on to something.
Understand AI for what it is, not what it might become.
Turned this throw away line into a Substack piece. It's the weekend, why not relax with a bit of nostalgia, some sociology, and patently obvious unintended professional consequences https://open.substack.com/pub/generalrulesandspecificcases/p/gomer-pyle-management-consultant?r=264jab&utm_medium=ios
The perfect example of the professional dialectic doesn’t exist…
The irony of existing to help create the very market power that is then used to screw your commercial existence.
Nobody’s talking about management consultancy’s monopsony problem.
Fascinating piece on the diffusion of “Printerism” as a business model. You drown customers in switching costs and use design and legal isolating mechanisms to inhibit reverse engineering by rivals. pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/l...
Surrounded by spaced out high rises with fourth floor car dealers, huge illuminated hotel signage, and two story indoor atriums, it’s every 1970s movie about “the future”.
The best part of going to Heathrow by car is that flyover onto the M4. The physical embodiment of modernist dreams of the 1970s.
The NY Times is at its purest form as (business) gossip mag. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/business/media/disney-bob-iger-chapek.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU4.JHW2.N5bpZYrdrYky&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The inside story of how Bob Iger undermined and outmaneuvered Bob Chapek, his chosen successor, and returned to power at Disney.