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The thing that worries me, in addition to all the other things that worry me, is that Sam Altman has to pay back a lot of people a lot of money. And that always leads to organizations becoming evil, the way Google did. Watching Google become evil, shutting down companies like mine, doing things that they couldn't possibly be proud of, that's sad.

Mills Baker, Seth Godin, Robin Sloan, Jasmine Sun, David Perell, Joan Westenberg, Venkatesh Rao, Anu... • Whoa: Conversations on AI & Creativity

contributes to the unmanageability of professionals: their daily roles as “experts.”

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

“Professionals today would never self-identify as bureaucrats. Product managers at Google might have sleeve tattoos or purple hair. They might describe themselves as ‘creators’ or ‘creatives.’ They might characterize their hobbies as entrepreneurial ‘side hustles.’ But their actual day-in, day-out work involves the coordination of various teams and... See more

Haley Nahman • #11: Can you be selfless on social media?

The two basic organizational imperatives—acquire resources, and use them to pursue some goal or agenda—saddle every organization with the institutional dilemma, whether its goal is saving souls or selling soap. The question that mass amateurization poses to traditional media is “What happens when the costs of reproduction and distribution go away?

Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody

Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

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Do not work for corporations. Old corporations were meaningful when their founders were alive, but now, they have outlived their relevancy. They exist only to keep their numbers growing

The Era of the Business Idiot

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