Rolls-Royce’s new CEO told his employees that the company is a “burning platform” and that they should be prepared for an aggressive efficiency and optimization program (i.e. job cuts). Why? “Every investment we make, we destroy value,” he explained, according to news reports of his recent global broadcast to staff. …

Twitter’s co-founder has come to regret his efforts to manage conversations because “absolute transparency” is the right thing for the Internet and society. His rationale is that governments and corporations want to “shape and control the public conversation” and therefore any content produced by someone should be permanently available to…

As advances in artificial intelligence continue apace, a chorus of technology apologists tell us not to worry. Our lives will be made easier, first and foremost, and whatever we give up in freedom of thought or movement will be compensated by more customized services and the promised benefits of improved…

The fact that technology is changing the jobs landscape is nothing new, and government and social norms have learned to moderate the sharpest edges of such changes in the past…as well as adapt to them. It’s different this time. The scope of the change is far more massive and, by…

I was struck by Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Bankman-Fried’s recent mea culpas for driving their respective companies into the ground, like it was sincere or that it mattered. Zuckerberg’s apology came as he took away salaries and benefits for 11,000 people, after having wasted $15 billion on a bad business…