Kyle Foreman

Already, the shape of the company is shifting. The firm has reduced its head count from about 45,000 people in 2023 to 40,000 through layoffs and attrition, in part to correct for an aggressive pandemic hiring spree. It has since also rolled out roughly 12,000 AI agents. “Do I think that this is existential for our profession? Yes, I do,” said Kate Smaje, a senior partner Sternfels tapped to lead the firm’s AI efforts earlier this year. But, “I think it’s an existential good for us.”

McKinsey believing from its board of directors on down that the current state of AI is existential to its business says far more about McKinsey than it does about AI lol apple.news/A8FLn2BPeRP6...

your lore just keeps getting cooler and cooler

I have a pants question! Is there any significance to whether there's a single belt loop centered in the back vs two close together?

Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.

Curious to hear if they have an exhibit of items (trash) “very likely handled by a Bigfoot” donated by Squatchin’ with Barb and Gabby like their rival Expedition Bigfoot: The Sasquatch Museum in Georgia.

Beautiful but also sort of reminds me of the opening credits to Look Who’s Talking

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.

I’ve recently taken to doing the loser L on the forehead and I think it may be even more satisfying than the thumbs down

Even if she can't find a new battery better keep the old mower in the shed just in case

I bought my nephew some newts from BackwaterReptiles.com for Christmas and now I get their old school html newsletter every few weeks and it's delightful, with prose like "If you haven't kept White's tree frogs before, you're missing out". Really recommend that in your inbox, beats any substack.

See this is what I’m talking about

imagining just a half dozen little dudes wearing tube socks sitting on the couch next to you

How did the person on the plane next to you react to this?

I will also see you in Seattle, Paul

then you *get to* die

I’ll tell you one thing, if Joe Biden runs to unseat her in 2030 I will NOT be voting for him 😤

I have really lost the plot on him at this point. Didn’t he just write a book about One Billion Americans? Does he even try to reconcile being anti-birthright citizenship with also wanting to triple the number of citizens?

mike did you know this

hey, we also take credit for the Weeki Wachee Springs mermaid show

Looking good, Brett Favre!

Was just going to suggest the same!

Tom that is even more tails I'm afraid

I heard the cardinals make the pope sit in a special chair to check if he has a tail to prevent a dog from ever becoming pope 😢

On iPhone (and probably Android?) if you hold down on the image for a couple seconds the menu that pops up has the alt text

I believe the phrase he’s looking for is “full throated”?

The moon is getting out of hand. We used to just go outside and every once in a while think "huh, moon looks weird tonight" and go about our business. Now every other week there's gotta be a new name and series of articles about it.

Just started reading Cal Newport’s Deep Work (2016) and it opens with him talking about how JK Rowling is so productive because she never tweets lol.

Wish I was as excited about anything in my life as this guy is about numbers going up on a screen

which one of these would go best with a pair of hands and a ring @rob-sheridan.com ?

He died so that we could have weekends