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How Managers Are Breaking The Internet

2024/4/24

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This chapter explores how the tech industry has been hijacked by managers detached from product development. It highlights the detrimental impact of this management style on user experience and the wider digital ecosystem, focusing on the massive profits generated despite negligence.

Growth-at-all-costs management approach in tech.
Managers' lack of interaction with products they profit from.
Massive profits of Meta and Google despite user experience issues.

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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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How Managers Are Breaking The Internet