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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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Beliefs

  • Korrents What they believe 7 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.

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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

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    • 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

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    • 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

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    • 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

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    • 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

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    • 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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