Topic
Layoffs
A collection of 20 issues
Presenting a Tapas Menu of Recent Tech News
Each week, we’re swamped by events and information. It’s hard to keep up. We do our best to remain apprised of what matters to us, but relevant developments can evade the notice of even the most diligent observer.
What follows are news items that caught my attention but
More than AI Recalibration Behind Layoffs at Google and Microsoft
I promised yesterday that I would deliver this post today. That's one promise kept. If somebody let you down today, it wasn't me.
Back in the sepia-toned days of my early career – when I wore a zoot suit, a skinny tie, and a gangsterish fedora on
A Brief but Terrifying Nightmare on Wall Street
I could have written about any of dozens of topics today. I was tempted, after reading for the second time Julian Barnes’ Nothing to be Frightened Of, a meditation on death and dying, to plump for death – as a subject of discourse, you understand, not as a final existential act.
Are Troubled Restaurants Canaries in the Consumer-Economy Coal Mine?
Big Tech Sheds Office Space, Intensifying a Trend with Other Tech Consequences
When reading articles and doing research, the goal is obviously to clearly understand the information you receive. If you’re serious about learning and gaining knowledge, however, you also consider what the information implies but not does state expressly. You take in the information in front of you, of course,
Cisco Sings the Inventory Consumption Blues
AI Portents in Current Wave of Tech Layoffs
If we carefully monitor the job cuts in the technology sector, we will gradually gain more clarity on just how much AI will impact not just those businesses but, in the fullness of time (which is not that full amid the quickening pace of technological acceleration), all industries and organizations.