Today's newsletter: Career managers and like Adam Mosseri and Sam Altman have become rich and famous by bulldozing actual builders - and how Altman in particular is a toxic, absentee founder that people have been trying to fire for over a decade. www.wheresyoured.at/managing-up/

Managing Up

Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the case that while rot economics are responsible for making techn...

Re: Altman, people read that WSJ you cite and were asking where the smoking gun was Clearly they have never worked with a super high performing narcissist or sociopath

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Gonna run for POTUS and my slogan will be "Make White Men Fire-able Again!"

Mosseri is a perfect bureaucrat, has his hands on the levers to control a huge institution but feels his job is to explain technically how things will only ever get worse.

David Graeber’s bullshit jobs strikes again. Business dictators detached from the actual making of things.

thank you for introducing me to the term “rot economy”, which i’ve found to be way better at evoking the malicious decay of a product than “enshittification”

The original career manager.

Silicon Valley is poisoned by people who can't code and don't use the products that make them rich, and nowhere is that more obvious than Meta. Ever wonder why Instagram sucks? Adam Mosseri chased out its founders with Mark Zuckerberg's approval. www.wheresyoured.at/managing-up/

I have been drafting a piece for my business on AI governance and one of the recommendations i make is “don’t select any tools that are attached to Sam Altman” because it is too high a risk. Thanks for giving me the best footnote reference i could include to explain how i came to that opinion!

Altman’s great talent was fellating pg & his wife’s egos. You can read pg, not that long ago, in ecstasy about how well sama fulfills his essentialist Heinlen ‘special little boy’ fantasies about who the inheritors of the earth should be.