Your Life is Getting More Expensive to Feed the AI Beast

Let me be perfectly clear from the start, I love technology. I believe in its power to solve big problems and make our lives better. I’ve been a tech nerd since I was a kid, since Commodore to Apple IIe days.

But true support doesn’t mean blindly cheering from the sidelines. It means asking hard questions, especially when the hype train is roaring ahead without any thought for the tracks it’s laying down, or who might get run over.

My loyalty isn’t to the tech giants, the investment firms, or the CEOs promising a shiny AI future. It’s to you and me, the everyday person who feels things getting more expensive and wonders why. It’s to the broader society that has to live with the consequences of these grand experiments.

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Open Letter to Toxic Workplace Culture Incubators

My friends,

I’m writing to you today not as a consultant or a guru, but as a peer, heck even a virtual friend.

Someone who has sat in the same meetings, felt the same pressures, and wrestled with the immense responsibility of guiding a group of people toward a common goal. It’s a privilege, this work we do. But I’ve also seen the dark side of it and it’s getting worse with the pace of life and technology we’re facing.

I’ve watched brilliant, passionate people slowly dim under the weight of so-called “leadership” that fails to understand its own impact, not just in the workplace, but to people’s personal lives outside of work.

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