The Strategist's Shame
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The Strategist's Shame
If your work is in any sense “creative” – if you’re a writer, designer, therapist, artist, editor, coach, architect, podcaster, or much else besides – there’s a good chance you’ve spent recent months worried that AI might be coming for your job. (You might be excited by AI’s potential, too; the two aren’t mutually exclusive.) But something about
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Most people have an acute sense of the challenges that lay ahead. They can predict the criticism they’ll face and the insecurity they’ll feel. This is why many, including me, refuse the “call to adventure” as long as possible. Before quitting my job, I spent several years critiquing the corporate world from within, convinced I could help “fix” it.
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We can talk about creativity (whatever that is) and changing culture (whatever that is) and all that jazz as much and for as long as we want, but when most agencies are expending precisely zero per cent of their time working out how to transition out of this dysfunctional and doomed way of working to something that is higher value, more profitable,... See more
Valuing value — Martin Weigel
We've built an entire professional discipline around wilful blindness to the grief, desperation, and moral collapse that actually drives consumer behaviour.The industry calls this objectivity. I call it strategic sociopathy.