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Don’t Add the Third Shift
In 2003, General Motors was trying to resurrect Cadillac.
The plan was audacious: a brand-new plant in Lansing, Michigan — Lansing Grand River — built…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The $900 Billion Autopsy: Why Digital Transformation Keeps Failing
For five weeks I’ve been building the case from the ground up. The NUMMI proof. Taylor’s confession. The suggestion gap. Deming’s statistics. Ton’s e…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Even LinkedIn Admits It Can’t Find You a Job
Reactive essay. Source: “The career ladder is fading as AI reshapes work, LinkedIn exec says” — Thibault Spirlet, Business Insider, April 1, 2026.
By …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
My Union
Today Jayanthi turns fifty-nine. In six weeks, we will have been married for thirty-five years. I have spent those decades leading manufacturing oper…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Snapchat Fired 1000 Today: The Ghost is no longer in the Machine
Source: “Snap Inc blames AI as it lays off 1,000 workers”
Nick Robins-Early, The Guardian, April 15, 2026
In Odesa, Ukraine, a young coder named Yurii …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Unzipped.
Reactive: “Larry Fink’s 2026 Annual Letter to Shareholders” — BlackRock, March 2026 — blackrock.com/us/individual/larry-fink-annual-chairmans-letter
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6 months ago
Brain Well Done
“I was working harder to manage the tools than to actually solve the problem.”
— Senior engineering manager, BCG/UC Riverside study on AI cognitive lo…
6 months ago
Ben Sasse Has Only a Few Months to Live. What will we do with our time left?
Source: “How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying,” Interesting Times with Ross Douthat, The New York Times, April 9, 2026.
https://www.nytimes.co…
6 months ago
The Good Jobs Evidence: When Paying Workers More Makes Shareholders Richer
Four essays in, and the evidence pattern is clear: worker intelligence exists (NUMMI), was deliberately suppressed (Taylor), flourishes when the syst…
6 months ago
The Matrix Hired 640,000 People
Source: “Wanted: Head of Human AI Solutions. The New Jobs Being Created by AI”
— Te-Ping Chen, The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2026
https://www.wsj.c…
6 months ago