I'm the owner and founder of Read Uncut, this is where I try to make sense of what is going on in this crazy fast moving world. Please provide any and all feedback at dan@readuncut.com or leave a comment!
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Somewhere in the middle of 2025, American tech firms started measuring their employees on whether they were using AI. The metric was never really about whether the work was getting done faster or better, it was about whether the employee had clocked visible hours on the tool, logged into the
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There is a lot of hype around AI right now. A lot. You cannot open LinkedIn, sit through an earnings call, or read a business publication without being bludgeoned by the same message, which is that AI is a 10x productivity unlock, a paradigm shift, a once-in-a-generation moment that will
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Every tech company right now seems to be in a constant state of "restructuring," which is the polite corporate word for removing a few thousand people from the payroll while the CEO talks about how the company has never been stronger. The layoffs themselves have been written about
tech
There is a lot of hype around AI right now. A lot. If you can think of a task there is somebody out there claiming that AI can do it, and they will happily sell you their product, their service, their course, their newsletter, their community, and probably their bathwater
politics
Trump is a lot of things, but one thing I'd argue he is, is a leader. Do I like what he leads? No. Do I like how he leads? No. But does he lead MAGA? Yes. His approval rating currently sits somewhere between 36% and 41% depending on
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Corporate America is having the best years of its life. Corporate profits hit $4 trillion by the end of 2024, more than double what they were in 2010, and 2.3 percentage points higher as a share of national income than before the pandemic. S&P 500 companies returned