Been nagging at me that the Eric Yuan interview is about scaling individual presence rather than organizational capacity.
So much about high-performing organizations is about diversity, psych safety, and collaboration producing better outcomes. How people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills effectively work together. This requires care, training and apprenticeship.
The "digital twin" view is about duplicating a single individual's virtual presence.
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Rather than pushing authority to knowledge, lossily replicating authority to consume more information.
It's a desire to train software to poorly mimic a person, rather than training people to work as a team.
I realize the economic incentives behind this sentiment. But for an industry renowned for, let's say, less than stellar training, inclusivity, and fostering growth, the emphasis on “training, but for machines to make more me” is something.