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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