Tag: culture
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AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
AI amplifies what you have: good processes get faster, bad ones get worse. Getting real enterprise AI ROI means changing how you work – structure, focus, scope.
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Laws, anecdotes, and other shit people say
Betty Crocker, mid-1950s. I heard a reference the Betty Crocker “add an egg” cake-mix story recently. It is: originally, people didn’t buy the cake mix because it felt too easy and didn’t feel loving, or at least sufficiently Calvinistic; General Mills removed the egg, then people cracked one in themselves, and suddenly they felt like…
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The broader lesson extends beyond music. When outcomes worsen, we are tempted to regulate expression rather than confront underlying issues. School bans, censorship campaigns and moral lectures target what is easiest to see. But culture, more often than not, is a lagging indicator—not a driver—of economic life. If hip hop had never existed, the trajectory…
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The Internet and social media platforms are now obviously detrimental to collective goods, cooperative politics and sane public debate. From here. I’ve encountered this sentiment a lot recently, even from Ben Thompson. If you take out “the Internet,” it’s probably right. My vibe here is: “human culture can not handle everything, everywhere, all the time.”…
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Relative to your interests, Monday
Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop? AI security concerns and opportunities for 2026 – Tanzu security maestro David Zendzian rattles it off. Amazon gives managers a new way to spot employees who aren’t spending enough time in the office – Enterprise Nanny-state. What does the platform engineer do when the amount of…
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Perhaps the attraction is that film noir is a way of traveling into the past—the world right before I was born. When watching old films, I like to remind myself that to the people in the film, their world was just as rich as ours and felt just as “now” as ours does. Here’s John…
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Shift Run Stop is back! This was one of the most influential podcasts for me. It showed an attitude about podcasting that was new and fun. That attitude was fun, curious, dorky, and joyous. You could do whatever you wanted, whatever you enjoyed.
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Related to your interests, Wednesday
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds – “Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.” // Assuming The Algorithm” is working (showing people things they will watch and…
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The new mid-life crisis is reading Proust.
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What would an annual intellectual purge look like? Accounting for and getting rid of unfinished thoughts and beliefs to start fresh, rather, declutter the mind. The goal is something like inbox bankruptcy.
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It is hard to keep up with American corporate smile-energy.
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Scoping questions for business books
What type of organization is this book for? IBM or Facebook or OpenAI? Netflix or Warner Brothers? Mercedes or Tesla? Alaska or Belgium? Delta or SpaceX? HSBC or Square? Does this apply to management, employees, VCs, Wall Street investors, or customers? Feel free to pick multiple, but explain. Is this a playbook for how a…
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Culture eats AI strategy for breakfast.
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A house style that intentionally enforces a neutral voice without strong opinions is often an unintentionally ironic mask for your company having neither.
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“in the era of the working class teen, you could get a job at a video store and still afford a car and drive around with your friends and feel free. The sense I had, my friends had, that the world we lived in was temporary, fading fast, was not unique to us, to the…
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tl;dr: “Nobody likes a smartarse”
People are not rebelling against economic elites,” writes Heath. Instead, this is “a rebellion against [cognitive] executive function”. In this view, populism is a movement that appeals to people who trust their gut, rather than those who rely on some too-clever-by-half argument. There is a lot that rings true about this suggestion. Consider the following…
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“If the people building the tech are terrified of it, maybe we should listen to their fears rather than their sales pitch.” Ten Blue Links, “Pop goes the bubble” edition
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The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work
Of late, the newsletter has turned into me linking to longer posts on my blog. There’s the usual links and wastebook as well. This makes it more of a digest than a stand-alone item. As you can tell by the volume of blog posts below, I like blogging though and I’m glad I’m doing I…
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