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Robot Clothing and Other Fantasies
Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, sat across from Joe Rogan in December and said something that should have made every working person in America look …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Word You Keep Using
The word “agent” comes from the Latin agere — to drive, to set in motion, to do. Its present participle, agens, meant “the one doing.” Not the one be…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Pope’s Homily Problem Is Your Factory’s Intelligence Problem
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On February 19th, Pope Leo XIV gathered his priests from the Diocese of Rome behind closed doors and delivered a message that had nothing to do wi…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Confession in the Blueprint: Frederick Taylor Told Us Exactly What He Was Doing
Last week I showed you the NUMMI proof — the same workforce, in the same building, going from GM’s worst plant to GM’s best in a single year. The onl…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Travis Kalanick Called My People a Pejorative Name
Fortune / Travis Kalanick, March 19, 2026
Travis Kalanick — the man who built Uber by reclassifying taxi drivers as independent contractors so he woul…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Larry Fink Spent $100 Million to Learn What Every Foreman Already Knows
Dr. Venki Padmanabhan • The Long Game
Response to Fortune / BlackRock, March 2026
Larry Fink just wrote a hundred-million-dollar check to train electr…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Three Faces of AI Washing
On Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the American economy shed 92,000 jobs in February. Markets had expected a gain of 50,…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Narrow Aperture
Nick Lichtenberg did me an extraordinary kindness in Fortune this week. In a piece called “AI Just Gave You Six Extra Hours Back. Your Boss Already T…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Zuckerberg’s Cut of My Mother’s Voice
Venki Padmanabhan • The Long Game
This morning I called my mother in Vellore on WhatsApp. Forty-five minutes, Wooster, Ohio to Tamil Nadu, India. Her …
7 months ago
The NUUMI Proof: Same Workers, Different Systems, Opposite Results
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7 months ago