I have, in the last week or so, participated in two separate conversations in which the phrase “the rizz” was deployed, unironically, by adults. Adults who are, every one of them, well past the age of forty. Adults with mortgages,
Performative AI Takes the Stage
Somewhere this quarter, on a company earnings call you didn’t listen to, a CEO leaned toward the microphone and declared their company to be “AI-first.” Analysts nodded and scribbled notes and the company stock ticked up a respectable amount. Meanwhile,
Summer Hours: Who Set the Expiration Date?
Let me confess something up front: there are few pleasures more complete than walking out of the building at noon-ish on a summer Friday, laptop abandoned, the whole golden afternoon stretched out ahead of you – the beach, the lake,
Improve or Transform? Which Will it Be?
“Transformation” is one of those concepts that bends under the weight of everything people project onto it. Depending on who’s using it and in what context, it can mean anything from a genuine, disruptive overhaul – when you blow something
