The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 1

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the media deliberately ignores reality to hide how Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s cloud growth is near-entirely driven by Anthropic and OpenAI, and how doing so threatens the livelihoods of hundreds of millions o ...  Show more

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by writer and software engineer Nik Suresh to talk about how AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making, weakening businesses and creating a culture of fear that demands workers lie about the benefits of AI to kiss up to Business I ...  Show more

Our country is now run by a bunch of spineless billionaires who were cast out as nerds in college so they launched a vendetta against humanity. Today, Edward Ongweso Jr. of This Machine Kills helps us understand the tech bro-ligarchy’s key overlords, why they are so far up the pr ...  Show more

Beware the plebes, fools, idiotic rulers, bosses and the self obsessed. In this CarCast I discuss sales people who lie to you and or themselves, the maligned, self absorbed, amd how you can battle ignorance to win this game we call life. 

CHAPTER 3: Conventional Wisdom - The Loser's Crutch   - Building Your Personal Foundation - It Doesn't Matter What the Morons Say - New Habits, New Companions - Taking Important Decisions - Keep Your Eye on the Vision and You Won't See the Obstacles - A High Performer is Passiona ...  Show more

Is the tech industry rotting from the inside out? Ed Zitron thinks so. As a PR expert, media critic, and outspoken tech industry commentator, Zitron pulls no punches discussing what he calls the "ROT economy" - where growth at all costs has replaced innovation and customer value. ...  Show more