The Ledger
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Parrish: Remote workers will end up working for in-office colleagues
“Oh, I just said the people who don't go back to the office are going to end up working for the people that do.”
Rockefeller Predicted Standard Oil Would Someday Refine All Oil
“The Standard Oil Company will someday refine all of the oil and make all of the barrels.”
Parrish: News Outlets Will Personalize Article Text to Readers' Preferences
“So increasingly, I mean, we're moving to a world. I don't think people quite realize that yet where you and I open the same article in the wall street journal or New York times, it's going to be two different versions of that article that's based on our browsi…”
Parrish: Remote work and insular socioeconomic environments risk driving political extremism
“The socioeconomic world looks like you, the political world looks like you, and my hunch, and I hope I'm wrong, is that this starts to lead to political extremes.”
Dyson will likely pass company leadership to an engineer, not an MBA
“It'll be interesting to see what Dyson does with his legacy, but I suspect he won't be passing the business over to an MBA, but rather an engineer who cares deeply about the product
About innovation. About the people working for the company.”
Parrish: Independent thinking rises in value as AI commoditizes standard thought
“And that's going to become more valuable because AI, at least at first, is going to give away standard thinking for free. So it'll raise the bar for some people, but it'll be so conventional for independent and original thinkers.”