FT: “A good deal of public discourse now feels framed as zero sum: the assumption that one group must lose in order for another to gain. It’s common to suggest that immigrants are taking our jobs, the wealthy are getting even richer at others’ expense, or that female workers are hurting employment prospects for men. It’s as if we are stuck in a game of musical chairs, with too few seats and some players doomed to miss out. The idea that we can expand the circle, that entrepreneurs can spread prosperity, is getting lost. And, worryingly, there is evidence that this kind of thinking undermines willingness to co-operate.”
Ben Thompson: “Human creativity and risk taking in the form of a startup, however, operates with a completely different risk profile. For startups the base case is failure; that means that anything that makes success more likely has positive expected value, which is to say that truly leaning into AI will be nothing but upside. Or, to put it another way, it is startups who will be the offensive hackers with nothing to lose by automating everything; it is the incumbents they will be attacking who will be so worried about losing what they have that they will keep humans in the wrong loop for too long.”
Sandeep Goyal: “We are moving from Bharosa ads se to Bharosa answers se. In a country where 500 million people came online in five years, where every answer is on phone, the brand that wins, going forward, will not be the loudest. It will be the most helpful at the exact moment of need. Yesterday, attention made you famous. Tomorrow intention will make you the chosen one.”
WSJ: “Sometimes the managers who have your back, more than the ones who are fun to hang out with, are the coolest bosses. They’re the ones who stay out of the headlines, anyway.”
