KPIs Are Just Tarot Cards for Managers
By Ken Hollow, reluctant fortune teller of corporate nonsense Let’s be honest: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are just tarot cards with pie charts. Managers shuffle…
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Tech Guides by Ken Hollow
Every tech question you've been too embarrassed to ask, answered in plain English.
Burnout Diaries
Burnout Diaries
Software’s Death by AI Is Greatly Exaggerated
Another day, another round of “AI is here to kill everything you know and love.” Except, apparently, it’s not. According to The Wall Street Journal,…
Burnout Diaries
Why Every Press Release Reads Like Mad Libs
By Ken Hollow, unwilling PR casualty and buzzword hostage Press releases are the cockroaches of corporate communication. Eternal, indestructible, and impossible to kill. Every company…
Burnout Diaries
Low-Hanging Fruit, My Ass
By Ken Hollow, unwilling gardener of corporate metaphors If one more brand manager tells me to “pick the low-hanging fruit,” I’m going to climb the…
Burnout Diaries
Are We Entering AI Bubble Territory? Sam Altman Thinks So
By Ken Hollow, reluctant tech correspondent with a migraine It finally happened: someone in Silicon Valley said the quiet part out loud. OpenAI CEO Sam…
Fox Files
Nana Wants a Corporate Retreat
By Ken Hollow, unwilling event planner and professional scapegoat Corporate retreats are already a nightmare. Trust falls, awkward icebreakers, and “vision alignment workshops” designed to…
Burnout Diaries
Circling Back to Circle Back (On the Circling Back)
By Ken Hollow, trapped in an infinite feedback loop of buzzwords If I die young, bury me in an Outlook calendar invite. Cause of death:…
Burnout Diaries
Why Every Meeting Could’ve Been an Email (and Every Email Is a War Crime)
By Ken Hollow, survivor of 4,000 Slack pings and counting I have seen the face of hell, and it is a recurring calendar invite labeled…
Burnout Diaries
Why Every App Wants to Be a Bank Now
By Ken Hollow, unwilling financier of the attention economy Here’s what I wanted from social media: to post a picture, scream into the void, maybe…
Fox Files
Nana Wants a Livestream (Pray for Me)
By Ken Hollow, unwilling stream tech and chaos manager Here’s a sentence I never wanted to say: I am now the livestream producer for a…