Exec on the Desk
@execonthedesk
Un-actionable insights about corporate absurdity — from a modern work skeptic. Ex-accountant. Google outcast. SaaS marketer. 20-yr new media iconoclast.
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https://amzn.to/3sJZSMf 25-05-2023 14:56:13
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Exec on the Desk Benjamin zBok 🇮🇱 LinkedIn Lunatics As the kids say, "it's not that deep." AI detection. Slop detection. Overly rhetorical detection ... it's all the same. Folks intuitively sense something's off. E.g., in cases like this one, a self-congratulatory note that no kid would ever write ... And it happens to include
LinkedIn Lunatics The state of social media is to reward this kind of poast (screencapped original), just like the kinds of things it calls out, with attention. The post does a great job of a hardnosed polemic. Everyone loves it. The choir goes to church every Sunday and says, "Amen," even when it
Tom Goodwin Rory Sutherland Large organizations run in failsafe mode (to borrow on John Gall), meaning they are broken in all kinds of ways, most of which are opaque to the organization (or difficult to change). Combine this idea with the late David Graeber's work on BS jobs and know that, at any given