Moral arguments for exploitative business practices are often dismissed as out of touch. But when businesses stop serving communities, what are they but parasitic forces? #WorkersRights #Empathy #GigEconomy dearbusinessowner.substack.com/p/006-gig-ec...
Runway Services
Runway Services
@runwayservices.bsky.social
A humanistic business agency.
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Your business is your life. "Having an experimental mindset means seeing failures as data points that you can learn from. If you keep on repeating the same trial and everything works as expected, it means that you're not growing." @neuranne.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Tn...
Social Media doesn't have to make you miserable. But it can. And when big tech ignores internal research that suggests it is engineered for addiction, you know they don't really care about your wellbeing. "Social" Media. dearbusinessowner.substack.com/p/005-meta-i...
Your critical capacity remains the most potent weapon you have in the battle for your mind.
“Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights left.” Marshall McLuhan (1964)
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You don't need more #ClimateChange awareness. You need better arguments. "If you have mass displacement of people across key regions.. the kind of geopolitical instability that we're looking at is unpredictable." @jasonhickel.bsky.social with @novaramedia.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlq...
There is no reason businesses shouldn't work in congruence with nature - other than that it pays better not to. In the short run. And we all know how that turns out.. #Preservation #CircularEconomy #ExtractionEconomics dearbusinessowner.substack.com/p/004-patago...
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Food for thought? "Without thoughtful and rigorous cultivation of philosophical insight, organizations will fail to reap superior returns and competitive advantage from their generative and predictive AI investments." #PhilTech
You can't broadcast "atmosphere" if the people who create it can no longer afford the stands. Pricing out legacy fans destroys the foundation of the product. #ModernFootball #PremierLeague #Economics dearbusinessowner.substack.com/p/003-premie...
"If our species were to die out without leaving behind any successors, this would be catastrophically terrible. But if our species were to die out after creating our posthuman replacements .. then this would be perfectly fine." #AIEthics #DigitalEugenics www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...
Human-centred design is for the people. AI-centred journalism isn't. #AIEthics #CriticalAI #AcademicSky #TechSky #OpenAI #ChatGPT #TechJournalism www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...
Prioritise your needs over that of the platform. Get informed. You are not always the problem. Do what feels right. substack.com/@petalandhea...
Carl Barât (formerly of The Libertines) wrote about #AISycophancy long before ChatGPT existed. "Blood thirsty bastards making plans for no one but their own I got to be my own master get away from these braggards, tricksters, foolish clones" Watch your step. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC8X...
"Cultural institutions have learned they can signal virtue without embracing risk. Today, it's more profitable to produce risk geared towards mass appeal than code it in the aesthetics of progress." #Enshittification #VideoEssays #CriticalTheory #AcademicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv02...
Do you know what percentage of its revenues Google pays to its workers? The figure is what inspired @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social to write his book 'Technofeudalism' in the first place. Leave your guess in the comments below! #DigitalEconomy #FutureOfWork www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_TM...
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"Give yourself the chance to be uncomfortable because you just never know what might happen." - MSCHF founder Gabe Whaley #MSCHF #creativity #entrepreneurship www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3v...
A @wsj.com writer convinced @anthropic.com's Claude to gave away free snacks in the office with a mandate to fight capitalism. #AI #Claude #AISafety #TechNews www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
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