We underestimate the impact AI will have on jobs because we focus overly much on calculating the capacity it might displace individual workers, and not nearly enough on the coordination between workers it will may make redundant. Jack Dorsey might be one of the first CEO’s to
explicitly explain the purpose of ‘
bullshit jobs’ is to route information across a complex organisation, which requires a hierarchy, which then requires more hierarchy to support it. Not so if Block manage to diffuse intelligence across the business, create a ‘world model’ and replace hierarchy altogether. Fascinating essay, fascinating experiment, one to keep an eye on. PS: kind of related to this screed
Collaboration is Bullshit, a sentiment familiar to anyone whose has too many meeting and wonders why…