I can't remember which podcast I was listening to — @SamHarrisOrg + @paulbloomatyale? — but my favorite point made was that journalists with no entrepreneurial experience underestimate the extent to which all *functional* companies are basically rolling internal clusterfucks
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Completely agree, but keep in mind that the *entire point of journalists * is to deliver a narrative that is impedance-matched to the expectations and Overton window of their readership. Tech journalists in NYTimes have vastly different framing assumptions than eg Venturebeat.
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In the case of the NYTimes audience, the assumption is that “companies” are generally well-managed, aligned, coherent. In the case of VB or tech industry rags, the conceit is that tech is good, innovation is good, scale and IPO are good... when in reality all of those are lies
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I mean no, though.
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