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Google Management Method: Big Money, AI Reorg, and Wizards Walking Away

Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.

I read Inc. Magazine’s article “Google’s CEO Says Gemini Is Its ‘Fastest-Growing Product Ever.’ People Are Using It in 1 Surprising Way.” If that doesn’t catch your attention, check out the subtitle: “Over one billion people now use Gemini each month, Sundar Pichai said on X.

The write up states:

Google’s Gemini AI product has hit the billion-user mark. As stunning as that figure is (equivalent to about one in eight people on the planet!), there’s more to take in here, because in an X post on the news, CEO Sundar Pichai noted that it means Gemini is Google’s “fastest-growing product ever.”

And how do these Google users interaction with Gemini? Hang on. It is voice which is definitely popular in meetings, on airplane flights, and in hospital waiting rooms. Google’s Josh Woodward, VP in charge of Gemini and Google Labs, added more detail in some X posts supporting Pichai’s. According to Woodward, it’s Gemini’s voice mode that’s dominating: Sixty-three percent of its users talk directly to the AI, including “more ‘voice only’ users.”

Thanks, Midjourney. Good enough.

Do people like Gemini? What a question! People “love” Gemini. Consider this statement:

Gemini’s loved by parents, who make the most of its convenient voice access for everyday tasks, and he says students love it too, with some 38 percent of school requests to the chatbot including an attachment of some sort.

Inc.’s story included this paean to the marvels of smart software:

Above all else, the billion-user Gemini figure is a pointed reminder that you really need to be training your staff on which AI they’re allowed to use, to prevent security issues, and exactly how much or how little they’re to trust these systems. On-the-go training on a repeated basis is your friend in this situation: AI is growing at a phenomenal rate.

We love the Google; however, we are not sure about this encomium to the Google AI, particularly Sundar Pichai’s apparently unbounded confidence for several reasons:

1. Sergey Brin wants to catch up and then win the major AI product categories. Okay, but Google appears to have fallen behind.
2. The AI unit was reorganized to produce better results, not just sci-fi research projects.
3. Big brains involved in AI are walking out the door.
4. Google’s AI job application system has some issues.
5. Google’s tightrope walking with regulators.
6. Choking off Google research reports about AI.

Yep, Google has the AI competition right where it wants it: Innovating, rolling out products, and pumping out marketing hyperbole.

Stephen E Arnold, August 20, 2026

Yat Siu: Morphing a Stradivarius into a Crypto Token with Web3 Magic

Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.

In our Telegram Notes online magazine, we presented Yat Siu and his Stradivarius violin. The article is “Yat Siu’s Web3 Violin Performance.” What’s interesting is that buying a Strad is rarely a PR event. When one spends millions for a relatively small musical instrument, publicity can attract bad actors or their hench people. Siu’s violin is the Empress Caterina, and it is allegedly on of the best of the Strads in existence. For collectors of rare violins, Siu has a good one. In our Telegram Notes’ write up, you will learn what Siu did as soon as he took possession of the Strad. Spoiler: He turned it into a version of the Bored Ape non-fungible token. How did this happen? An outfit named Galaxy has a tokenization machine. Shove the notional violin in one end and out pops a token. The next step was to hit the Go button on a PR machine. Can you view the Empress? Yes, but you have to be a musical luminary or a wealthy Web3 savvy person. The violin is in hock and held by a trusted intermediary, and there is a procedure to follow. How did this violin performance work out? Check the Telegram Notes story. No paywall. No ads. Just an instrument and a score.

Stephen E Arnold, August 19, 2026

Can the US Lead in AI?

Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.

In my feed was this Xout (pronounced “zoot” maybe) or Tweet from Chubby with a Coffee Cup icon @kimmonismus:

Interesting: Before stepping down as DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis reportedly pitched an independent body to set safety standards for advanced AI. The WSJ says he discussed the plan with other AI-lab leaders and Trump officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and tech adviser Michael Kratsios. His proposal: an industry-funded standards body that would work with federal agencies and US national labs to test models for national-security risks and define which systems qualify as “frontier-class.” [Editor note: We corrected the misspelling of the word “interesting” from “ineresting.”]

Hassabis is one of the DeepLab people who has deftly executed a lateral arabesque into a “leadership” position set up so he can think bigger thoughts without the likes of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat disrupting his synaptic pulses.

Thanks, MidJourney. Good enough.

The idea of setting up a version of the International Atomic Energy Agency for smart software is interesting. I have several questions:

1. Adrienne Fichter’s essay “Will ‘Made in China’ AI Regulation Soon Go Global?” suggests that the Middle Kingdom appears to be taking the pole position in AI governance. She points out that the EU is lagging. And she says that the US is responding with its “usual paranoia.” Have the US big AI tech companies considered that implicit leadership in AI might have a head start and be motivated by something different from paranoia?
2. Does the IAEA function? When I entered the nuclear industry in the early 1970s, the number of countries with [a] nuclear weapons and [b] a delivery method was small. Based on what I hear, a number of countries have solved the problems associated with building a kinetic and successfully addressed the delivery mechanism. The IAEA is a good idea. The United Nations is a good idea. Do they have meaningful control over certain events?
3. In order to set up a new international agency, quite a bit of political interaction is needed. Can the US assume that it has the political magnetism to take the lead in this type of global effort? What happens if certain countries ignore the US effort and rally around another approach?

I think big ideas are good; however, the ideas must be timely, not late to the train station because the express may have already shut its doors. Also, the entity pushing the idea forward must be respected, trusted, and politically adept. An absence of these qualities means lots of meanings that are likely to end up “signifying nothing.” Finally, the fact that smart software is perceived by a relatively modest number of people as being the next big thing yet has consumed (allegedly) more money that the cost of World War II to the United States is under constant and severe criticism by articulate critics like Gary Marcus, Ed Zitron, and others.

Net net: This is an outstanding personal PR move for the former top dog at Google’s AI factory. With the reorganization, the idea of creating a not for profit does not strike me as much more than a promotional effort. Your mileage may vary, but that hallucination stuff, the yap about AI escaping and hacking, and the surge in AI-enabled kinetics suggests that the AI express is on its way.

Stephen E Arnold, August 19, 2026

AI Outfits Are Playing the Same 45 RPM Record Over and Over Again

Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.

When I received my first battery powered radio in 1956, I remember it was a weird blue green. That did not matter. I could tune into one of four radio stations. One of the stations had a playlist. Every hour the same top hits would play. I know there was a human spinning the disks. I recall hearing the scratch of a match when the disk jockey fired up a Camel. Sometimes between songs, idle chatter would be heard before the cut over to a commercial for a drag strip. The memory that will not go away is the sound of the King’s “Hound Dog.” Well, you ain’t no friend of mine. I loathe repetition.

Thanks, MidJourney. Good enough.

The BAIT outfits (my lingo for big AI tech) have playlists, and they keep the messages on repeat. Examples include staff departures, money raising,  and my personal favorite doom. Yep, doom. These companies have in my opinion demonstrated the highest of ethical standards. As a group, the firms have handled management challenges with aplomb. Employees are deliriously happy except for Jeff Dean, et al, who picked up their more than 140 patents and started a new company. Oh, there’s Microsoft. That company embraced one firm, acqui-hired another one, and now after developing its own model is cheerleading for non-commercial large language models. A little inconsistency just adds spice to the BAIT operations.

I want to highlight two write ups that plopped into my in box while I was in a meeting, “virtual, of course.” These articles are:

• “OpenAI Says Its Next AI Model Astra May Be Too Dangerous, Pauses Development”
• “Anthropic’s Boris Cherny Says AI Coding Bugs Are Getting Harder: Less Off by Ones, More System Design Problems.”

Let’s view these two items as replays of “Hound Dog,” cryin’ all the time. What will happen from the rival AI stations? I think that the fear, danger, cyber security threats, et al will be on repeat. This means that “when they said you was high-classed, Well, that was just a lie.”

The BAITs, including one from the Middle Kingdom, have confessed that their wizards cannot control their smart software. Excuse me. Humans working with human developed software have no ability to control what their creations do? Is this a remake of the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus?

I think the AI outfits are putting the same scratchy discs on their really expensive devices and cranking up the volume. Can you hear the tune:

You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
Cryin’ all the time
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog

Elvis was an entertainer, a movie star, a fellow who fired a weapon at his TV. The BAITs are in a class by themselves. True that some fly private jets. Some ride electric powered surf boards and fight former mixed martial arts champions. One enhances in-person appearances with a chain saw. I suppose that’s normal for rock stars.

However, let’s play another tune. Try to be high-classed. Stop that cryin’ all the time. If your software is a problem, pull the plug.

Stephen E Arnold, August 18, 2026

Can ChatGPT Do Personality Evaluations? Sure

The veracity of personality tests is questionable, but what is not in question is how well AI can write and score them. Apparently AI agents can do it very well. According to the American Friends of the Hebrew University, “ChatGPT Can Predict And Validate Responses Of Personality Tests, According To New Study.” Because AI agents are trained on LLMs that are based on large amounts of human language data inputs, researchers were curious if they possessed an expert-level of human language and personality.

“‘Given that personality traits are reflected in language, LLMs may have learned the structure of human personality as a natural byproduct of their training,’ says Dr. Monsa. ‘So, while they were not taught specifically psychology or personality theories, these are already embedded in the language that LLMs learn from.’” 

The theory was tested by using ChatGPT-4 to make two personality assessment questions. The first one used information from the DSM-5, while the second used an astrology textbook. This is what was tested:

“For the former, ChatGPT generated a questionnaire with personality statements based on descriptions of personality disorders from the DSM-5. For example, based on the paranoid personality disorder section, the questionnaire asked participants to rank (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree) how much they agree with statements like “often suspects others’ motives” or “finds it easy to trust people.” The astrology questionnaire generated similar statements, but these were based on the source text’s assignment of personality traits to the astrological zodiac signs.”

The generated tests were given to 600 participants along with the Big Give personality test, which is the most validated personality test. This tested their utility. Here are the results:

“Results from the DSM-5-sourced questionnaire showed high internal consistency within personality clusters; this means traits that typically correlate together in the real world (like avoidance and dependency) also correlated in the participants’ responses. Importantly, these results mirrored those from the BFI, a finding that helps validate the strength of the questionnaire in measuring -life patterns of human psychology. As predicted, the astrology questionnaire showed a weak internal consistency across traits. Despite this limitation, both questionnaires could predict life outcomes like depression, anxiety, and well-being from their responses at levels comparable to the BFI.?This suggests that even though the assignment of personality traits to zodiac signs is not scientifically grounded, the personality-relevant content that LLMs extract from these texts retains a meaningful psychological signal.”

The most interesting result was that ChatGPT predicted what respondents would report before they were taken. This suggests that LLMs have an innate understanding of personality dynamics at a population level. This also demonstrates that LLMs can help researchers create personality tests from any source material and validate the results for clinical use.

“Moreover, the combination of clinical and psychological insights with the power of AI-based tools is a transformative phase in the development of clinical and experimental psychology that may profoundly affect the field.”

While it is scary how accurate ChatGPT and other agents can predict results, this does show one benefit of AI. It can assist in medical and research results with amazing accuracy. Now if only other parts of AI were just as helpful.

Whitney Grace, August 18, 2026

More Smart Car Excitement

Tesla is all the rage when it comes to electric vehicles and if you want to wear your SJW ego out in the open for everyone to see. Tesla wants to be the first company that not only has the world’s most popular electric vehicle, but also have the patent for the world’s first self-driving car. Tesla has been demoing a self-driving vehicle for years, but Futurism reports on how the “Tesla Whistleblower Describes Wildly Dangerous Safety Lapses While Developing Full Self-Driving.” Javier Medrano blew the whistle on Tesla by revealing that its autonomous fleet is a 24/7 “rolling hazard” in the city of Houston, Texas. Tesla is “aggressively” scaling up its operations and the fleet has more than doubled to a size that Medrano said was impossible to oversee. Medrano states he pleaded his higher-ups for more assistance, but his pleas fell on deaf ears.

Here are more details and a quote from the whistleblower:

“‘It almost feels like these big corporations can get away with anything, and people just kind of put their heads down and say, ‘Well, this is how it is,’’ Medrano told The Independent. ‘And it breeds an environment where people don’t say, ‘This is not okay.’” Medrano took over as the sole operational manager of Houston’s FSD test fleet eight months after joining the company in 2023. When he joined, the size of its fleet and human operators was just 15. But months later, Tesla increased it to 38 vehicle operators. These employees kept the cars running for 24 hours a day across three shifts, and Medrano, as remote fleet manager, oversaw them all.”

The cars Medrano oversaw were part of Tesla’s “Rodeo Team” that purposely put the autonomous cars into dangerous situations and only intervened at the last second for training data. The lawsuit claims that Tesla’s “Rodeo Teams” have more than one safety lead in other cities. This came to a head when an exhausted Medrano had an accident reported to him from a test driver of self-driving vehicle. The call came to him at 2:05 AM, because Medrano was “physically asleep” he gave incorrect advice to the driver. He later told HR he didn’t remember the call.

The people of Houston better watch out. Then again everyone in a city where Tesla is practicing its self -driving vehicles may want to look both ways before crossing a street. Is Tesla’s business strategy designed to me fearful?

Whitney Grace, August 18, 2026

China: AI Flooding and Abetting Bad Actors

Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.

Hugging Face cranked out a report based on the traffic and metrics within its AI amusement park. The data were not entertaining in my point of view. You can work through the fancy graphics and wordsmithing in “State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations.” News services focused on a couple of what in their opinion were the marque findings; for example:

• Alibaba’s open-weight models tallied more than three billion downloads since February 2026
• Google garnered 418 million downloads in the same period
• Meta snagged 227 million in the last six months.

Are the numbers to be trusted. Sue, by some. The important part is that if these data are close enough for horseshoes, there is a much larger message in the Hugging Face report. If you like to think that the US has whipped the AI challengers into meek submission, stop reading this blog post.

Thanks, Midjourney. Good enough.

Here’s my take.

First, Chinese AI vendors are pushing out good models without too many restrictions. The Middle Kingdom is making is possible for developers anywhere in the world to create AI products and services built on Chinese software. At this time, the US leads in the design and sale of AI hardware. But the question the write ups don’t put front and center is, “Okay, but for how long?” My answer is, “Probably less time than the frontier investor spreadsheet jockeys guess-timated.” Where will the US “hardware” be made if the South Korea and Taiwan centric factories experience an issue?

Second, the primary beneficiaries in  my opinion are the bad actors. Even the bad actor with minimal computer skills and a two year old mobile phone can set up and run a modest phishing scam. Governments, companies, and trade associations have to be more careful because an AI mistake can create unwanted problems. Yep, I am thinking about those allegedly uncontrolled events at OpenAI and other firms. Is this PR or a problem? Bad actors don’t care. If one is a bad actor, the friction that legitimate entities encounter is of less or no concern. Bad actors loved Telegram bots. The party is more vibrant with AI and its agentic loops and whirls.

So what?

My view is that the flooding tactic is designed to accelerate widening the cracks in the American smart software structures. An added benefit is that bad actors can use Chinese smart software to exploit the US financial system. Undermining the dominance of the dollar is a bonus from some actors’ point of view.

What’s next? I think the Chinese vendors will follow the tactical line authorized by their funding sources and “regulators.” I think 2026 may be a pivotal time for the US AI leaders. Several of the companies are struggling with their organizational set up for AI. A couple of the big players are cutting back on their “spend whatever it takes” to build infrastructure. Others are capturing headlines by saying, “Darn it. We can’t control this stuff.” Toss in some of the global geo-political action, and we have a very interest near term horizon approach by mid 2027.

Net net: The Chinese AI flood is not accident. The US is simply in a defensive posture. The immediate winners are the bad actors. Aren’t you glad you aren’t a dinobaby like me?

Stephen E Arnold, August 17, 2026

Has China Influenced Silicon Valley AI Thinking?

The Trump administration does not like China, because that country is trying to leverage itself as the world’s strongest and will do anything to gain an advantage over the United States. It might have one when it comes to open source AI and Silicon Valley wants its own chunk of it. The Decoder explains that the Trump administration was about to outright ban Chinese Open AI code, then the rich and powerful influence of Silicon Valley made the president and his people change their minds. You can read about it in: “Silicon Valley’s Rift Over Open Source Pushes Back Contemplated White House Bans On Chinese AI.”

The White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent debates whether or not the US government should intervene aggressively in the open-weight AI market. Options for the intervention included a possible ban on US cloud companies doing business with China, a trade blacklist targeting Chinese makers of the open source models, and sanctions. It was also discussed which models federal agencies would be allowed to use. Silicon Valley said nay:

“The push came after a wave of powerful Chinese models, led by Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI, which matches top US models in several areas. Michael Kratsios, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, accus ed the company on X of distilling Anthropic’s model Fable, calling the theft of US technology “unacceptable.” Bessent floated sanctions the same day.”

Anthropic and OpenAI called for restrictions against China, but Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia said the opposite. They didn’t want these open source AI companies to gain a market advantage:

“Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang became the face of that resistance. On July 24, he wrote his first-ever post on X to defend open models. Nvidia also launched an alliance for open security tools that grew from a handful of members to more than 230. Christopher Padilla, a former Commerce Department official, described the dispute in the NYT report as a “cage fight over the future of the AI industry,” saying it’s mostly about money and market power, with the security angle tacked on…OpenAI told the paper that both open and closed models have a role to play. The company argued that progress in Chinese open-weight models isn’t a case against openness but rather a reason for a national framework. Anthropic declined to comment, though CEO Dario Amodei has laid out his position on open weight in a previous post. The NYT has a pending copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.”

Is China being a good global citizen or is this a subtle play to undermine the US AI sector.

Whitney Grace, August 17, 2026

Internet, Oh, Internet, People Do Not Love You Anymore

Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.

In the early days of the Internet I was paid to show up at technology transfer conferences and demonstrate how to “use” the Internet. Easy money. The hard part was getting a modem to connect through the often union-controlled telephone set ups in conference centers in Manhattan and my all time favorite location, Olympia Conference Center. People who “saw” my demonstrations loved the idea of using a computer to observe content displayed in truly wonky browsers. Correction. The browser I used was Mosaic. The original WorldWideWeb browser was a non-starter for my purposes.

Now the falling out of love is allegedly taking place. How do I know? I read “AI Slop, Privacy Fears, and Endless Scrolling Are Making People Fall Out of Love with the Internet.” (Of course, I believe everything I read on the Internet, alternative facts and the rest of the outstanding outputs available.)

The write up asserts:

• A majority of those in the response pool said, “AI sucks.”
• More than half of the survey’s respondents said, “My data will be ripped off.”
• About half of those in the sample said, “Yep, I doom scroll too much.”
• A majority of those in the response pool said, “AI sucks.”

And then the wild finding:

Nearly one in three of respondents would pay for an Internet with no tracking or algorithmic feeds.

Subscription-based businesses would love one-third of the goldfish in the pond pony up cash to get “information.” Like magazine subscriptions, one has to have a market, have money to sell to that market repeatedly, and deliver the elusive “value” that a subscriber knows when he or she feels it. The bottom line is that subscription-based businesses are often a tough sell, experience churn, and cost a lot of money to grow.

Will the “users” pay to run a query? Ask Kagi. Will users pay to use a large language model? (Sure, if you carrot-and-stick them, browbeat them, or just use dark methods like get the credit card and make it nearly impossible to cancel.) Does that sound better than the beloved Internet we now have?

It should. In my view, free blogs like mine exist but they are difficult to find. Web indexing is expensive and resource intensive. One indexes what produces clicks. Clicks lure advertisers. No clicks means no advertisers. Tricks to get clicks is now the core business strategy of online services. Want to read more than the headline of this article? Subscribe. Want to get updates? Give us your email, donate to my fund raising, and subscribe? Do you want to watch my intentionally wonky videos? Just buy merchandise.

I want to put my view of this survey in perspective:

1. I assume the findings are good enough but without access to the methodology, the sampling method, the controls, and the statistical method I don’t know.
2. Online is pervasive, and it has via a massive flow of zeros and ones sandblasted older, more time consuming ways to perform certain tasks.
3. The edifice of the “Internet” is showing signs of stress. War, hackers, citizen revolt, government action against the ghost providers who enable online crime, and other forces will cause stuff to break.

What’s the outlook, dinobaby? Think old. Just remember the way the Internet used to be. The one you can access right now is the best the Internet will be.

Stephen E Arnold, August 14, 2026

Modern Management Methods: PR the Big Time Influence Way

Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.

Modern management methods fascinate me. As a dinobaby, I experienced mostly old-school management ideas and methods. First, I worked at a nuclear outfit owned by everyone’s favorite company Halliburton. Then I shifted to a blue chip management consulting outfit which has had an serpentine history. When I set up my own consulting firm, I tried to keep those helping me productive and happy using those old time methods.

I am surprised by the innovations that some of the big AI tech outfits use. I call these entities BAITs. The most recent method to catch my attention is described in The Next Web’s article “OpenAI Flew Influencers to a Nature Resort to Fix Its Image. The Internet Called It Greenwashing.”

Hey, MidJourney, good enough.

As I understand the tactic, OpenAI, a BAIT outfit in my lingo, wanted to improve its public image. This is from my point of view a crisis management play. OpenAI perceives that people don’t talk about OpenAI in a positive way at scale. The fix decided upon by OpenAI leadership was very trendy. [a] Identify influencers on social media. [b] Invite them to an off site in one of those expensive, little known retreat spots loved by big, money-rich organizations, and explain the OpenAI “message.” The approach is nothing new. Before I retired, I was invited to show up at corporate events and then use that opportunity to interact with certain people. Believe it or not, one of these events featured a company whose president would be terminated due to management shortcomings. Imagine that?

The Next Web article reported:

OpenAI flew a group of influencers to a $2,000-a-night wellness resort to warm up the public mood around AI. Days before a reported $500bn data-center deal, the internet called it greenwashing, and the creators got the backlash.

Okay, the Next Web’s write up makes clear that the desired publicity to burnish the image of the BAIT outfit did not work out the way OpenAI’s leadership envisioned. The news that did come out was that a company building data centers that will not exactly benefit wildlife or human’s wellness was doing a clumsy propaganda play. The “greenwashing” thing is okay, but the tactic is nothing more than a staged event to suggest that OpenAI is a responsible outfit.

The article explained:

OpenAI hired Instagram’s former partnerships chief, its “celebrity whisperer,” as its first head of creative partnerships this year. Summer Camp, it says, was education-led, timed to the launch of ChatGPT Work, and meant to show people practical uses of its tools. “Creators are an important part of our community,” a spokesperson said, adding that the company welcomes “healthy debate.” The debate is the part OpenAI seems to have misjudged. It would not say whether the creators were paid, or expected to post. What the weekend bought was a fresh wave of the exact sentiment it set out to cool. The image problem was the reason for the trip. The trip became the image problem.

I disagree. I think the issue boils down to judgment. OpenAI, like a number of BAIT outfits, demonstrated with this PR play bad judgment. That happens to many organizations. I think there are some other issues:

1. Companies like OpenAI are fighting a losing battle on three fronts: People are pushing back against BAIT data centers in the US. Europeans are pushing back against US BAITs and other US technology. China is pushing BAITs into an inkwell filled with red ink produced in the Middle Kingdom.
2. OpenAI is working overtime to meet the expectations of the US government, its funding sources, and its partners. That consumes decision cycles, and I am not sure ChatGPT can provide the outputs OpenAI’s management requires. Maybe it can? But maybe not?
3. OpenAI is faced with the daily hassle of managing a company with different projects, different technical groups, and what might be called dynamic ideas designed to improve the less dynamic ideas now available to customers. In short, meetings are despised but necessary. Are they fun? Yeah. Sure they are.

Net net: Of these management challenges, I think the fact that this green wellness offsite hoe down took place illustrates that modern management methods may not be what the doctor ordered. Do I hear coughs and sniffles from this outfit? Yes, I do. Are there other interesting management methods in use at this firm? Yep.

Stephen E Arnold, August 13, 2026

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