This is Why Musk Is Guilt-Tripping You Back to Your Office - "...people should get off their moral high horse with that work-from-home bullshit..."

 Elon Musk's Autonomous Taxi Business Model

Greg's Words

Musk is playing three-dimensional Majong while the rest of us are watching Saturday morning cartoons.  I believe him when he says managers and office workers at Tesla must be in the office.  When you're building something tangible, it is very poor form to have the folks on the line see colleagues working from the comforts of home - I get that in an automotive start-up.  A continuous state for Tesla.

And I understand the technique of demanding Twitter employees 'get back to the office' when he first took control of the Bluebird - he was giving those who didn't want to work at Twitter the opportunity to fly the coop.  And they did.

So when he nearly popped a blood vessel the other day, demanding "...people should get off their moral high horse with that work-from-home bullshit..."(People?  What 'People"?)  I took note.  Literally, I took notes.

But of course - just a scant few minutes earlier, he outlined how he could sell Teslas today at no profit, but look forward to 5 times more in the coming years - Tesla Taxi Mode.

He rarely publically displays that level of passion - even when his rocket ship blew up, his response was aplomb - but he slept on the shop floor in the early days of Tesla, an entire industry lined up against him even the White House shunned the guy.

He's all wrapped up in Tesla, his first and only child, so every perceived threat, real or unreal will be dealt with great prejudice.

That's it in a nutshell: for Tesla to outlast the rest, autonomous Tesla Taxi Mode is the key, and every Tesla that stays at home, eats into profits.

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Musk Goes Off - Hates Work From Anywhere

Musk just went OFF on #WFA.

"...people should get off their moral high horse with that work-from-home bullshit..." - yeah, he said that.

If been watching him for a few weeks(not in a creepy way & I am not a fanboy) he presents as a person who thinks more than he talks and I hadn't seen him emote until this session.

"...you're gonna to make everyone else who made your car come work in the factory... you're gonna tell the people who make your food that they can't work from home... the people that come fix your house they can't work from home but you can... does that seem morally right? That's messed up..."

Now to be fair, a few minutes before he says all this, he explains how he could sell Telsas for no profit, but look forward to a 5x profit from his EVs in the future.

Huh? What?

"The Things We Think And Do Not Say." Selling Copiers & Technology.

As management urges for higher productivity, AI and automation emerge as key allies in the modern workspace.

For decades, we in the copier industry have been telling prospects our hardware "increases productivity and reduces costs". 

We lied. 

Well, we defined the narrative to fit our mission of selling 10 copiers a month. (or whatever) 

The world is increasing productivity and reducing costs through more efficient workflows - and if you are simply selling copiers, printers, or MpS, they are doing it without you and viewing your relationship as a target for cost reduction. 

AI eats workflows 24/7 and will decimate everything from middle management to the C-Suite.

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Don't Fear AI - Play It.

A violin is a technology.  So is a drum and at the base, language is THE technology.

Music is a process.  The analogy between this performance and business processes like A/R, Order Entry, and Customer services is stunning.

The photocopier, desktop, firewall, phone system, and spreadsheets are technologies. 

Beethoven created this with the technology of the day(1785) - What will AI help create today, that will be around 238 years from now?

Are You Selling Copiers & Office Tech to Law Firms? Not For Long

AI Is Changing the Legal Industry

“It has the capacity to reshape the practice of law,” Mr. Villasenor said. Previous waves of automation mostly affected blue-collar jobs in industries like manufacturing, or back-office roles that required many calculations, such as accounting or mortgage processing. 

Rapid developments in AI could pose threats to the type of work performed in white-collar professions, like the practice of law..." - WSJ

Greg's Words

See, I told you so.  One of the most paper-intense business models in the history of print is going to someday soon, be inhabited by Chat Agents.

Imagine ChatGPT attached to the Nexus/Lexus databases.  Every judgment, law, regulation, and legal action is at the disposal of savvy prompt-generating Legal Eagles.

• Roll-playing with AI before a trial.
• Digging up every relevant precedence, ever.
• Determining which jury members are the best to accept and reject.
• And mathematically predict outcomes.

This changes everything.

A quick summary of a WSJ article.  Enjoy.

Key highlights:

• Law firms and in-house legal departments are employing AI tools using GPT-4 technology to handle writing and research tasks, traditionally assigned to entry-level lawyers.
• The AI tools are set to revolutionize white-collar jobs, potentially affecting 44% of legal work, as per a Goldman Sachs report.
• Despite AI's promise, there are concerns about uploading sensitive data to cloud-based products and the opacity of AI software.

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