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Showing posts with label business stupidity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business stupidity. Show all posts
Thursday, September 03, 2026

The Fugitive

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I didn't watch a ton of TV when I was in high school - too busy trying to translate Latin without using a trot (cheat sheet), too busy m...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Miller Time

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There have been an awful lot of Millers in the news of late. First and most dreadful is, of course, the odious Stephen Miller, the malign Wh...
Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Ford doesn't always have a better idea

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Growing up, my family had Fords. Fairlanes. Galaxies. In the mid-1950s, we had a two-tone, turqouise and white Fairlane. My father wasn'...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

I truly want this 3D house printing thing to work...

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God knows, Cairo, Illinois, isn't the only community in dire need of housing. After all, I live in Boston - one of the most expensive ci...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

The road to hell (and stupidity) is paved with AI

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For years, I've been reading about how our abundance of technology is changing the way we think - and not in good ways. Cursive writing,...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Firing Offense? Well...

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Although I don't typically root, root, root for teams from New York, I was delighted when the Knicks won the NBA championship. The games...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

AI ready for primetime? Wait just a durn minute

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Well, yesterday's dire post was about AI coming for all of our jobs - and coming fast! But today's pinkslip post is about whether or...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

RIP, Circle Furniture

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I was a big fan of Circle Furniture, a small local chain selling interesting, well-designed, decently made, and not crazily expensive furnit...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Hey, Klarna: karma much?

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In April, I posted about a truly dreadful experience I'd had with Eventbrite's AI customer support .  While this was the very worst ...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Beware of hero worship

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It's not that it's a big surprise when a someone you admire turns out to be a behind-the-scenes POS.  For me, the someones I admire ...
Wednesday, January 08, 2025

No, Madam

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It's probably a pretty good rule of corporate thumb to approach HR surveys with more than a bit of wariness and skepticism. Just how ano...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Need another reason to fear and loathe AI?

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I don't really hate AI. Not all of it, anyway. It's great and is going to be greater when it comes to assistive technology that wi...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Priya B's insights...

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By the standards of most folks, Priya Bhambi was having a successful career for herself. With an undergraduate degreee and an MBA from North...