How Managers Are Breaking The Internet

04/24/24 • 34 min

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The growth-at-all-costs management consultant mindset has turned most of the modern internet into a painful and profitable social experiment - and in this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how these disconnected, growth-hungry personalities have made Google and Meta abdicate any responsibility toward their users and products.

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Better Offline - How Managers Are Breaking The Internet

Transcript

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More Zone Media. Hello, and welcome to Better Offline. I'm at Zetron. This episode is the first of a three part series about how the tech industry has been snatched from the hands of people who actually build things using software and hardware by a bunch of managers that have little or no interaction with the products they're actually profiting from. The same managers also don't appear to do much work, and today I'm going to walk you through exac