Rick, I haven’t watched it yet, but deeply admire the self awareness of this post. Seasons greetings 🎅

It resonates, especially the stories of human connection that will be remembered long after a store brand is forgotten. After climbing the ladder, falling off, and getting back up to continue my own journey, my dream job looks a lot like cutting fabric and asking the customer what she’s making.

I still sew, and craft, and diy, repurpose, upcycle. The thing that fabric taught me was what Leigh describes: sometimes you have to feel it to know how to use it, and how not.

I built my early career in those industries with 5 companies that no longer exist, and the ones that survive are in continuous reorg. A less desirable continuous thing. I lived the drive to be a category killer and witnessed its inevitable end. Innovate to dominate is burnout fuel.

saw this the other day and it stuck with me... and both things can be true www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt5e...

…the enshittification continues? we talk about it happening with technology and software, but I don’t even think it’s that new. it’s any system that was sold as innovation for our collective convenience, but mostly is just a way to funnel profits to fewer people

Watching the recording 😊 about halfway through, you talked about finops for ai without ever mentioning finops, and I agree the startup energy heating up in that area. AI cost visibility is the risk mitigating prerequisites to scale.

But Rick, where do you think the algorithm learned that behavior?

I do hope Bend frogs 🐸 represent

I feel like nuclear holocaust belongs on this list, but then maybe that was on the side of rational fears.🤷🏻‍♀️

this isn’t the same diggnation from 2007ish?

I do enjoy a word that is big and rarely used, and paints such a better picture of a useful idea, that I am determined to speak it. At least once.

...on so many levels. might as well have a little empathy?

Do they even need to exist if it doesn't play out?

Their need for unlimited growth has always been manufactured. Turns out, largely by some very insecure autocratic leaning figures.

Maybe they will get out of the way and humans learn to relate to one another without serving logos.