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But I’m not here to throw your manager under the bus. I’m just here to tell you I need a change. And I did this once with a leader at Amazon, where I wanted to make a change. I was doing a good job for him in the role I was in. So he wanted me to stay there. And what I had to help him understand is I said, you are seeing this as I take this new role or I stay in this role, and you’d prefer I stay in this role because that’s good for you.
Amazon VP Reveals Everything He's Seen in Corporate Politics | Ethan Evans
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How would this have played out if you were focused on the work, instead of how long it was taking? Winning requires results. And results require focus. Turn off your phone. Turn off the TV. Close your door. You don’t need to ask eight people what to do. It’s just you and the work now. No distractions, no clock. Focus on what you’re doing, not what you’re missing. You control everything.
This type of content was never about The Craft of Writing™ or Providing Readers With Quality Information™—it was always an arbitrage for media magnates to pay freelance writers a low hourly rate to produce a dozen articles a day and hopefully serve enough pop-ups, banner ads, and affiliate links to turn a profit. Not all content that ranks highly in Google is of this type, but a lot of the content that is moving to machine-generation is.
The Endgame for AI-generated Writing
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