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Of a piece I wrote recently on writing and AI, I told a friend: “It’s giving a lot of writers self-righteous pleasure. And without self-righteousness, writers wouldn’t have any righteousness at all.”

“Move forward. Go. I’ve found people who dwell on the past get stuck in the past. It’s a problem at work and it’s a problem at home.”

Y/N: This attitude, and the suffocating self-assurance with which it is expressed by Silicon Valley powerhouse VC guy Mark Andreessen to his butt-nuzzling interlocutor in this short video, are close to the heart of the tension between corporate leaders and the professional communicators who they hire to help them sound thoughtful.

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