Ed Zitron
Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.
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- Premium: The Hater's Guide To AI Debt (Part 1) 18 Sept 2026 The year is 2026, and you are a hyperscaler CEO. You zip up your Patagonia vest, type UPDATE ME ON CALENDOR TOODAY into ChatGPT, and see that you have a meeting with your CFO. They tell you that while they love all thos…
- AI Is Already In Dangerous Hands 14 Sept 2026 If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month. In return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhe…
- Premium: The Hater's Guide To Broadcom 11 Sept 2026 According to The Information, in early 2024, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan hosted a “coffee chat” with employees of the recently-acquired VMWare, and introduced them to his particular brand of management: At that time, VMware’s…
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- Concentration Risk 8 Sept 2026 If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month. In return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhe…
- Premium: The Hater's Guide To Circular Financing (Part Two) 4 Sept 2026 You know, sometimes it’s kind of hard to explain the “circular” part of circular financing to people, in the sense that some of the agreements are kind of clunky. NVIDIA funds OpenAI, who then spends that money to rent…
- Hyperscale Normalization 1 Sept 2026 If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, inclu…
- Premium: The Hater's Guide To Circular Financing (Part One) 28 Aug 2026 [NVIDIA Company Meeting, the present day, YMCA playing] JENSEN HUANG: We love NVIDIA, don’t we folks? We’re the biggest, most-beautiful semiconductor company, we make the biggest, hottest GPUs for Clammy Sammy and Wario…
- The AI Hater's Manifesto 25 Aug 2026 If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, inclu…
- What Happens If OpenAI Dies? 18 Aug 2026 If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It's $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, inclu…
- Premium: How Much Money Does AI Need? 14 Aug 2026 I’ve heard from people in the past that my articles are too long, and I wanted to start by saying that, for the most part, they’re going to stay long, because I feel like the only way for me to make my arguments is to be
- Don't Look Up 11 Aug 2026 If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It's $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, inclu…
- Premium: The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA (Part 2) 7 Aug 2026 For a little under a year, everyone — myself included — has compared NVIDIA to Enron, largely because NVIDIA insisted, in detail, that it was nothing like Enron, WorldCom, or Lucent, a potent example of the Streisand Ef…
- News: Microsoft Disclosures Suggest OpenAI Sales Account For Around 70% Of FY26 AI Revenue, More Than 7% of FY26 Revenue 5 Aug 2026 Executive Summary: Microsoft disclosures and Bloomberg analyses show that OpenAI's compute spend and revenue share accounted for 70% or more of Microsoft's FY26 AI revenues, and more than 7% of Microsoft's overall FY202…
- The AI Demand Bubble 4 Aug 2026 If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It's $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, inclu…
- Premium: AI Is Getting Way Too Expensive 31 Jul 2026 A great deal of the discussion of the so-called benefits or problems with AI comes down to the theoretical jobs that are (or are not) lost as a result of things LLMs can (or cannot do), or the equally theoretical produc…
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The modern executive is symbolic: what gets rewarded is the appearance of doing work rather than any output anyone can measure.
We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where "what's useful" is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the vibes passed between managers and executives that have worked their entire careers to escape the world of work.
The Era Of The Business Idiot Said 21 May 2025
The chief executive is no longer a leadership role but a figurehead measured only on growing the company’s market capitalisation.
The Chief Executive — who makes over 300 times more than their average worker — is no longer a leadership position, but a kind of figurehead measured on their ability to continually grow the market capitalization of their company.
The Era Of The Business Idiot Said 21 May 2025
Management has stopped meaning doing work and now means maintaining a culture of dominance and extraction.
Management as a concept no longer means doing "work," but establishing cultures of dominance and value extraction.
The Era Of The Business Idiot Said 21 May 2025
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The people running companies are selected for resembling a leader rather than for being effective at anything.
Decades of direct erosion of the very concept of leadership means that the people running companies have been selected not based on their actual efficacy — especially as the position became defined by its lack of actual production — but on whether they resemble what a manager or executive is meant to look like based on the work that somebody else did.
The Era Of The Business Idiot Said 21 May 2025
A "good business" now means one that can display quarter-on-quarter stock growth, not one that makes good products at a fair price.
the definition of a “good business” has changed from one that makes good products at a fair price to a sustainable and loyal market, to one that can display the most stock price growth from quarter to quarter.
The Era Of The Business Idiot Said 21 May 2025
Once shareholder value is the only goal, nothing else — the customer, the product, the workplace — is anybody’s job.
When you care only about shareholder value, the only job you have is to promote further exploitation and dominance — not to have happy customers, not to make your company "a good place to work," not to make a good product, not to make a difference or contribute to anything other than further growth.
The Era Of The Business Idiot Said 21 May 2025
A well-written email does not need an AI summary, and an executive who delegates his reading to one has stopped doing the job.
You can read your messages on Outlook and Teams without having them summarized — and I’d argue that a well-written email is one that doesn’t require a summary.
The Era Of The Business Idiot Said 21 May 2025
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