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  1. @bagder Ok this is the interesting #nuance or #meaning I was trying to find:

    So without pressure / in theory:

    - Can you see that using #Money and #Banks themselves are the #bad #managers in life & they devalue all money by re-re-#lending it out ?

    (+ MANY bad things as *the* #1 root of all problems / fund wars as their main #business etc.)

    So while I accept #Banks seem to grow things infinitely, #Banks provides a false method expecting infinite growth (% debt) as the bad foundation of life?

  2. @bagder Ok this is the interesting #nuance or #meaning I was trying to find:

    So without pressure / in theory:

    - Can you see that using #Money and #Banks themselves are the #bad #managers in life & they devalue all money by re-re-#lending it out ?

    (+ MANY bad things as *the* #1 root of all problems / fund wars as their main #business etc.)

    So while I accept #Banks seem to grow things infinitely, #Banks provides a false method expecting infinite growth (% debt) as the bad foundation of life?

  3. Futurism: Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire. “This attorney was one of numerous employees who spoke to Futurism about their experience with AI-obsessed bosses, relaying feelings of frustration and anger as managers and executives use the tech to barrage staff with […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/01/futurism-bosses-are-becoming-obsessed-with-ai-using-it-to-make-every-decision-barraging-their-employees-with-nonsensical-chatgpt-directives-and-even-asking-it-who-to-fire/
  4. Futurism: Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire. “This attorney was one of numerous employees who spoke to Futurism about their experience with AI-obsessed bosses, relaying feelings of frustration and anger as managers and executives use the tech to barrage staff with […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/01/futurism-bosses-are-becoming-obsessed-with-ai-using-it-to-make-every-decision-barraging-their-employees-with-nonsensical-chatgpt-directives-and-even-asking-it-who-to-fire/
  5. What happens if you lock #paleofire researchers and fire #managers in a room for 3 days and have them discuss synergies? While no one was actually locked in, this recent workshop at CSIC Aragon highlighted why such #transdisciplinary exchanges matter:

    palaeopen.github.io/outreach/m

    Thanks to @gilromera and the whole team in #Zaragoza for the wonderful organization of this #PalaeOpen workshop! Excited for what lies ahead when it comes to paleofire data use for informing policies and supporting society's future #wildfire resilience 🔥

  6. What happens if you lock #paleofire researchers and fire #managers in a room for 3 days and have them discuss synergies? While no one was actually locked in, this recent workshop at CSIC Aragon highlighted why such #transdisciplinary exchanges matter:

    palaeopen.github.io/outreach/m

    Thanks to @gilromera and the whole team in #Zaragoza for the wonderful organization of this #PalaeOpen workshop! Excited for what lies ahead when it comes to paleofire data use for informing policies and supporting society's future #wildfire resilience 🔥

  7. Two legal scholars assert that AI, by its very design, undermines democratic institutions, even when used properly.
    They highlight three corrosive "affordances":
    • atrophy of expertise,
    • moral decisions short-circuited,
    • social isolation, which undermines dissent and agency.

    Woodrow Hartzog, Jessica Silbey (2026). "How AI Destroys Institutions" scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty

    #organizations #government #corporations #process #strategy #democracy #policy #sociology #institutions #administration #management #managers #executives #AIRisks #cognition #sociability #ethics

  8. Two legal scholars assert that AI, by its very design, undermines democratic institutions, even when used properly.
    They highlight three corrosive "affordances":
    • atrophy of expertise,
    • moral decisions short-circuited,
    • social isolation, which undermines dissent and agency.

    Woodrow Hartzog, Jessica Silbey (2026). "How AI Destroys Institutions" scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty

    #organizations #government #corporations #process #strategy #democracy #policy #sociology #institutions #administration #management #managers #executives #AIRisks #cognition #sociability #ethics

  9. As you know I think much of the UK's economic doldrums are caused by rubbish management; both in the sense of not being very good at it, and specifically the managerial mindset that workers are a cost to be reduced, not the organisation's key asset that needs to be invested in.

    Two charts from the FT reinforce that argument (albeit only via correlation)... at the very same time that more people are mangers than workers, our productivity gains have stagnated.

    #workers #managers #productivity

  10. As you know I think much of the UK's economic doldrums are caused by rubbish management; both in the sense of not being very good at it, and specifically the managerial mindset that workers are a cost to be reduced, not the organisation's key asset that needs to be invested in.

    Two charts from the FT reinforce that argument (albeit only via correlation)... at the very same time that more people are mangers than workers, our productivity gains have stagnated.

    #workers #managers #productivity

  11. L’État, double armée du capital : managers et monopole de la violence

    L'État = double armée capitaliste : 1° managers administrant l'économie (bureaucratie, normes, fiscalité) ; 2° armée/monopole violence protégeant propriété/accumulation. État non neutre : machine militaro-administrative au service du capital. #État #Capital #Violence #Managers #Jaurès #Althusser L'État moderne n'est pas un arbitre neutre entre intérêts concurrents : il fonctionne comme double armée…

    homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

  12. @leyrer

    Best use of #AI is replace managers. At least the AI won't be worse, than all the #narcissists on different levels of management.

    No, I didn't say, all #managers are narcissists. But there are a lot of narcissists among them.

  13. @leyrer

    Best use of #AI is replace managers. At least the AI won't be worse, than all the #narcissists on different levels of management.

    No, I didn't say, all #managers are narcissists. But there are a lot of narcissists among them.

  14. The Chilean billionaire who wants to mine copper and nickel near the Boundary Waters can’t even be bothered to pay his DC sewer bill?

    Kalorama Sewer_ 2025115942Download

    Law professor and ethics watchdog Richard Painter put it bluntly back in 2019:

    Jared and Ivanka’s landlord — a billionaire from Chile who rents them their mansion in D.C. — will use the Boundary Waters as his toilet. Pro-sulfide mining politicians in Minnesota and Washington are handing him the washroom key.

    Seven years later, the key to the billionaire’s commode is now turning in the lock. House Joint Resolution 140 will open the door. Meanwhile, as the above notice of delinquency indicates, this same Chilean billionaire has been using Washington DC’s waters and sewers, and the people charged with managing his toilet can’t even be bothered to see that the water bill is paid on time. 

    The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority — whose motto reminds us that “Water is Life” —issued this notice to the owner of 2449 Tracy Place NW back in November. The property in question is the Kalorama mansion purchased for $5.5 million right after the 2016 election by Andronico Luksic Craig, the billionaire whose family also controls Antofagasta plc, the foreign mining conglomerate currently pushing to mine copper and nickel on the edge of the Boundary Waters. 

    Luksic rented the Tracy Place NW mansion to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump for the duration of Trump’s first term while Antofagasta’s lawyers, lobbyists, and executives worked behind closed doors with administration officials to undo environmental protections and advance the Twin Metals mine. Despite serious public concern about foreign emoluments and other improprieties, no formal ethics review of the Kalorama rental arrangement was ever undertaken. It was, at best, a not-so-subtle influence operation, a form of corruption that today can seem almost quaint (but that hardly makes it excusable). Nowadays, Luksic could just arrange a meeting at the White House and present Trump with a gilded copper chamberpot.

    Luksic continued to hold the Kalorama rental property after Trump’s first term violently unraveled and Jared and Ivanka fled DC. These days, the billionaire’s lawyers are supposed to be managing Tracy DC Real Estate (a Luksic front, one of many) and the the Kalorama property. They appear to be negligent or inattentive managers. In 2019, they failed to renew the required business license for the rental property on time; then in 2023, they simply “abandoned” the business license. The matter was referred to enforcement. 

    So this latest infraction appears to be part of a pattern of neglect, and I would suggest that the pattern merits some serious consideration. In other words, I don’t think I’m just taking cheap shots here. In Washington DC, Luksic is an absent rent-seeker, as he would be in Minnesota; and in DC, it seems, his property managers can’t be arsed to comply with local codes and ordinances. His Minnesota managers might do better, or not; but the irresponsible oversight of the Kalorama property does nothing to assuage concern. (Much the same could be said about the significant fines another Luksic enterprise incurred for unauthorized water extraction at Agricola El Cerrito in April 2025).

    DC has had to chase down Tracy DC Real Estate for operating the Kalorama property without a license; and the city has had to place a lien against the property in order to collect what is owed for water and sewage management. This is not exactly the conduct of a model citizen or someone with a commitment to the District of Columbia. It’s what we might expect from an absentee landlord.

    And that is essentially what Minnesota and the country will get with the Twin Metals mine: an absent owner from a faraway place and a group of hired managers on the ground. Antofagasta might hire the most qualified managers at the Twin Metals mine, and I’m sure they will say that they have; but even the best managers are employees, not owners. With ownership comes responsibility.

    The absentee, rent-seeking model of resource extraction is especially concerning when it comes to sulfide mining, where responsible local water management is critical in order to prevent – or at least try to prevent – acid mine drainage and other toxic pollution. Only last month, in fact, the Chilean government fined Antofagasta $775,000 for failing to comply with water management rules. Will our regulators ever be so diligent?

    Think of it this way: a copper and nickel mine is, among other things, a sewer. It can, and in most cases will, drain, leak, or discharge pollutants for decades after the mine has closed and the owner has absconded with the profits.

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    #ANTO #corporateResponsibility #corruption #environmentalResponsibility #HJR140 #management #managers #ownership #resourceHoarding #responsibleMining #sustainability #Water
  15. Doctors do not use the stethoscope and the scalpel everywhere, but they employ countless diagnostic tools and intervention techniques to perform their duties. Lawyers have many substantive and procedural tools, reserving law suits as the last-resort option. Engineers, EEs for instance, use many tools and techniques besides the multimeter and the FFT. In all these regulated, licensed professions, the professionals use both their skills and their knowledge.

    In #IT, however, #managers are indentured servants of LLM and #programmers are but afternoon snacks for Python.🤷‍♂️

  16. Doctors do not use the stethoscope and the scalpel everywhere, but they employ countless diagnostic tools and intervention techniques to perform their duties. Lawyers have many substantive and procedural tools, reserving law suits as the last-resort option. Engineers, EEs for instance, use many tools and techniques besides the multimeter and the FFT. In all these regulated, licensed professions, the professionals use both their skills and their knowledge.

    In #IT, however, #managers are indentured servants of LLM and #programmers are but afternoon snacks for Python.🤷‍♂️

  17. A Thorough #Guide to Becoming #Multilingual : Medium

    Warren Buffett’s Simple #Definition of #Leadership That Most #Managers Still Get Wrong : Misc

    The #Science Of Why #Socks Keep Us #Warm. It’s More Than You Think : Forbes

    Latest #KnowledgeLinks

    knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

  18. A Thorough #Guide to Becoming #Multilingual : Medium

    Warren Buffett’s Simple #Definition of #Leadership That Most #Managers Still Get Wrong : Misc

    The #Science Of Why #Socks Keep Us #Warm. It’s More Than You Think : Forbes

    Latest #KnowledgeLinks

    knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

  19. 1 hour ago
    Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
    Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro,
    according to #Charles #Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Global Advisors and a former head of investment advisory firm Evercore.

    Myers said in an interview he is planning a trip to Venezuela with officials from top #hedge #funds and #asset #managers to determine whether there are investment opportunities in the country

    wsj.com/livecoverage/venezuela

  20. “The promise AI companies make to investors is that there will be AIs that can do your job, and when your boss fires you and replaces you with AI, he will keep half of your salary for himself, and give the other half to the AI company.” — Cory Doctorow

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    #Business #Companies #Investors #Managers #Employees #Jobs #Salaries #AI #Quotes

  21. @alice

    I once had a Mgr.. long ago... She would send little cards with notes of gratitude or kudos.. and she would say something to the effect of 'keep this for later....when you might need to look at it again..."

    She knew..

    I did keep them. All of them... Still look at them from time to time.

    In 40+ years of working in tech - she was the only one that did that.

    So many BS, loudmouth, #narcissists #managers since.

    #Courage #SelfEsteem #mentalhealth #decency #compassion

  22. "What can learn from Duke and Wisconsin’s basketball teams?
    ...
    The lesson many people miss is that college teams are mostly about developing a team that wins. Developing individual players is a part of that, but it is subordinate to developing a team..."

    management.curiouscatblog.net/

  23. Due to some restructuring, it looks like I may be training a new Director at work. He'll be a skip-level... straight from IC.... with some previous but minimal management experience.

    I've (very successfully) mentored several #engineering #managers (and a few dozen engineers) in my time. I've even developed, refined and written down my mentoring framework, but this will only be my second -direct- mentorship for someone new to a manager-of-managers role and I expect to be updating/expanding it.

    Curious if there's any appetite for this type of material. Would you be interested in a "Crash Course for new Engineering Managers" if I extrapolated one? Or, at the Director level, a "So you need to build a #software department 101" guide?

    #leadership #management

  24. For those of you navigating the world of organisational meetings next week... a piece of advice once given to me (but sadly I was seldom able to act on it):

    Never go to a meeting that can start without you!

    #meetings #OrganisationalCulture #managers