"consider the number of examples where managers, supervisors, and employees lost track of the core reason they were being employed..."

I do! and I recognize it doesn't have to be this way. Just as I can consider how many people in my culture overeat, and I recognize it doesn't have to be this way. And just because I'm surrounded by obese people, who will tell me earnestly and sincerely and at length how good it feels to eat food and how painful it is not to eat food, this does not excuse overeating nor does it assuage the consequences of overeating. And captains of industry who shout from the podium "greed is good!" are not to be excused from their wastes and the consequences of their actions.

I'm picking nits because talking about excess as if it's a fait accompli or fated destiny is discouraging people from doing the right thing. Don't surrender to an unsustainable way of living your life. To say any/every company's mission is "to make money" gives this unhealthy lifestyle (operatingstyle?) an inevitability that absolves people's mistakes. The author of that management book you quoted is an irresponsible teacher.

"If [a company] could make more money just investing in the stock market, for example, why not do that instead?

They do; I've seen it from the inside. Money that could be used to advance the mission is put into stocks instead, or gods forbid, volatile abstract investment vehicles like Bitcoin. And this is not right nor good behaviour, but the people who mistake the means as the end make these mistakes. I recognize in once case where I saw this happen, sacrificing the mission for the sake of income was a defensive manoeuvre because the company started by borrowing capital and paying the interest on the loans became a crippling expense. Maybe it's the fight for survival that makes management forget what the mission was.

die if they* don't eat food

Maybe I'll die if I don't make typos.

die if the don't* eat food.

"... a business's primary purpose [is] to make money.

That's like saying a person's primary purpose is to eat food. They need to eat food, they'll die if they eat food, but what happens to a person that sacrifices all else they do so they can eat more food, eat food faster, eat as much food as they can? C'mon.

HR departments in the last six years were outsourcing their communications to third parties. We're being trained to accept messages from strangers.

At my last two jobs, the electronic security teams were really pushing Single-Sign-On... which means giving my identity and auth-codes to an outside third party just so I can start the work they're paying me for.

Back when SpyCloud let you see what they found about you, they informed me that one of my email addresses appeared over three thousand times in their collections of leaked info. Often it would appear multiple times in the same leak. About a third of the time, the identity associated with the email address was wrong, and every. single. time. the password was wrong.

Who could've guessed criminals would think to make money off selling lies to other criminals?!

When I hear there's twice as many user/password pairs as there are humans on the planet, I can guess the source of this list is less likely successful exploits and more likely

while true; do echo "$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=9 |base64)@$(shuf -n1 /usr/share/dict/words).com: $(shuf -n1 /usr/share/dict/words)"; done

You're outsourcing or subcontracting your work to someone who needs to use a translator for everything you say to it, and everything it says to you.

Hell, we've already had recent news about "AI" companies doing your vibe-coding were a staff of hundreds of humans trying desperately to keep up with your requests.

it's not much of a surprise if you're shouting it at us to get clicks, now is it?

Ah, sorry, when you said the book was "a direct copy" I mistook that for plagiarism; it was unclear whether the author of the second book is the same person as the author of the first book.

The plagarist can be held accountable. But when a chatbot "fucks around," can it "find out?" Signs point to no.

> but you can't hold human authors accountable for plagarism either

And that's why banning chatbots is the easy, fast, wrong solution.

What's the appeal of building a terribly expensive server room in a place nobody can get to for fixing/replacing things, a place that is famously terrible for object that need to dispose of heat?

My guess is it was a hasty response to bots that would create a bajillion new sockpuppet accounts. If there's no technical crew behind the scenes, then there's nobody to replace this band-aid with a real process, and maybe nobody to process applications.

"AI will replace our jobs when the customer can clearly and correctly describe their requirements; our jobs are safe."

Twitter's value was diminished so much after Leon took the helm that it was worth a fraction of some tech start-up that hasn't yet reached version 1.0 ?

"Peer reviewed studies showed a caual link between drinking water and thirst." So, naturally, drinking water must cause thirst, right? Kids these days wouldn't be so thirsty if you just stopped drinking water.