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• Reading Note

Who’s Jobs are AI Taking Right Now?

Despite all the speculation over why Amazon is laying off 14,000 workers, as of this writing, and with a few exceptions I’ll note below, I don’t personally worry a great deal about AI taking away jobs currently. The reason is that while new AI agent based services and products are becoming better at replacing humans at certain tasks: * Many tasks are not automatable —...

• Essay

Surviving a Consultant’s Axe

Gawker, who seems to really hate McKinsey and other management consulting firms, recently put out a “Complete McKinsey Survival Guide” in response to McKinsey recently being retained by magazine publisher Conde Nast where they lay out a couple of interesting thoughts on how to survive a consultant’s downsizing tendencies including: > “Suck Up—Kiss ass, Kiss ass, Kiss ass.