Truth, Lies & Work

# critique

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42:21What scared Andrew most — and the column that got critiquedAndrew Palmer: There are things which are really frightening. Again, if you go a sort of long enough time horizon out and start to extrapolate, you could imagine the AI being really, really good at almost everything, betEP 277 · 19 Feb 2026·interview· 42:21–48:0313:23What Isn't Working – Shareholder SupremacyAl Elliott: Your book is called This Isn't Working. What isn't working? Meghan French Dunbar: I mean, I'll start with the meta, the big thing that isn't working, which is shareholder supremacy and the profit-at-all-costsEP 229 · 4 Sept 2025·interview· 13:23–15:305:23The problem with resilience trainingAl Elliott: Oh, so I'd like to start with what would be a simple question, which I'm sure has a really complicated answer. So complicated, I think you wrote a book on it. The concept of resilience as we know it, truth orEP 162 · 14 Jan 2025·interview· 5:23–10:576:23What's Bruce's beef with resilience?Bruce Daisley: I've got huge issues with it. And, and for a number of reasons, really. Firstly, I think at its heart, the idea of resilience is superficially really appealing, but the expectation of it is actually somethEP 78 · 20 Feb 2024·interview· 6:23–9:209:20Is resilience training a complete waste of time?Al Elliott: So what we're saying is that resilience training is just a complete waste of time? Bruce Daisley: We look for resilience in the wrong place. We've looked for resilience as this individual trait, this almost lEP 78 · 20 Feb 2024·interview· 9:20–13:2423:16Affirmations — the good, the bad, and the 'bollocks'Al Elliott: Hold on a freaking moment. We're talking about here affirmations. Now, I was a big fan of Tony Robbins, and so I did some affirmations when I was bankrupt and had no money and no food. But nowadays I'm a bit EP 69 · 14 Dec 2023·panel interview· 23:16–27:3924:46A critical lens on the layoffsAl Elliott: Hmm Leanne Elliott: So to flip this slightly, I mean, let's put this critical lens on. Given what we know about what, let's be honest, seems unsustainable rapid growth of these massive tech companies, added iEP 12 · 15 Nov 2022·other· 24:46–26:21

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