Productive Tension

The heart of organizations is tension, which when productive can lead to great outcomes. If it goes to extremes, disaster. This week, we discuss tension at OpenAI between its non-profit mission and massive ambitions, the tensions of hacking attention to sell products, the Trump tension between the truth and making a valid a point, and the tension between tech changing consumer expectations and media business models.

Episode links:

• NotebookLM from Google.
• Seb Young's music project, Chronically Offline.
• Eating the pets video.
• Channel 5, Aurora Migrant Gang 'Takeover'

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