nilay patel

NY earthquake!

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...

Does Brady know how pyramids work y/n

Y’all

Are they eyeing making it work

I am very much able to blame the most powerful person in the world for communicating poorly lol

Sure but the administration failed to make that case in an accessible way to anyone, really. I wish they had done a better job

Or they just thought a lot of things were too expensive and capital was squeezing labor in weird ways that Trump talked about directly even though he does not want to fix it

I believe it, and the stats showed it. But it is undeniable that people did not feel it, and the case was not made to them persuasively

Pointing at abstract statistics and telling struggling people the economy was actually roaring didn’t work for Biden when the numbers were real, it’s going to be even harder for Trump when the numbers are fake

It is exactly what it sounds like but in lawyer

To this day PR people ask me if Intuit really asked me to delete this part of the interview and shake their heads in sad disbelief. My friends what we sell here is our ethics policy

Trump's IRS chief finally said IRS Direct File is "gone." Intuit lobbied hard against free federal filing for years.

Here's Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi defending that record in a Decoder interview last year. Intuit later asked us to cut this part. We refused.

“Moderation is the product” is just a cliche now but yes I will take credit for it lol, also YouTube has had T&S integrated with product for years now, this structure makes a sense at a certain scale

YouTube video by Billakos Music Matters The Clash The Guns Of Brixton 1980

youtu.be/6eneRB5z1XM

Haven’t seen them next to each other but nothing here made me sad about my A95L

Substack is back in the news again for the wrong reason: this time, the platform sent a push notification to a neo-Nazi newsletter featuring a swastika logo. Here's Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best on Decoder two years ago struggling to answer a question about moderating hate speech.

hundreds of people in the metaverse wondering why god has forsaken them

I heard Dwayne say everything would be better if they just rolled back the processing to the G4 standard so…. I don’t think so?

Inside the LG G5’s shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout Nilay helped score the Value Electronics annual TV Shootout. Here’s what goes on behind the scenes.

The LG G5 came in last at this year’s TV Shootout - it basically failed some of the tests. A shocker! www.theverge.com/analysis/715...

“If trends continue, then you'd expect people to spend less time in productivity software, and more time creating and connecting.”

Hmmmmmmmm what software do you use to create Mark

Wesley LePatner, a 44-year-old Blackstone executive who oversaw its $53 billion real-estate investment fund, was killed in Manhattan's mass shooting "We cannot properly express the grief we feel upon the sudden and tragic loss of Wesley," the LePatner family told Fortune, adding she was a "driven and extraordinarily talented professional and colle...

if you use AI to write my obit, I'm going to haunt your ass. you will never get a good night's sleep again. fortune.com/2025/07/29/w...

Interesting idea hmmmmm

The only good use of AI

Yes, the last thing I want is a media-brained Wordpress PM, this is all about creating new user behavior

It is basically the heart of our homepage strat -- we are more than happy to curate interesting things and link out because we know that service will bring people back

Subscribers get full text RSS from us!

Hm we can probably figure this out

Our plan is to build direct traffic to our site. and newsletters just one kind of direct traffic in the end. I don’t intend to ever rely on someone else’s distribution ever again ;)