I can’t think of a single memorable piece of business writing from the last 5 years that I enthusiastically forward to fellow management nerds or clients. A couple of videos and decks at best. For eg Steve Yegge’s platform rant is 10 years old now.
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Joel Spolsky’s stuff is similarly old.
I haven’t read an HBR article from the last decade that I actually recall.
Everything sounds like LinkedIn.
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Old school east coast general management writing basically died around 2013-14 after GFC. And from west coast, there’s only editorialized war stories/introspective autobiography at best now.
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Kinda intriguing. I think general-interest business theorizing HBR style died and was replaced by:
1. VC hustle porn
2. “Engineering++” writing that touched in management as a sideshow to say containers or microservices or whatever
3. Introspective biography
4. LinkedIn bs
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Airport business books are basically not worth reading anymore since there’s usually a summary or video talk with the gist (apologies to many friends who’ve put effort into such books). “Should have been an essay” no longer applies since it usually IS an essay too. Usually meh.
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- Have you follow Ben Thomson (Stratechery) work on Aggregation Theory?
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Software-eats-world + markets-in-everything = less room for (discretionary) human middle managers? Note that the quantity and quality of writing on finance and tech has never been higher -- Matt Levine, Byrne Hobart, Patio11 and others ...
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