As the founder or principle in a sequence of a couple of the largest privately h

As the founder or principle in a sequence of a couple of the largest privately held tech and marketing services (consulting) companies in america, I used to recommend that students, if they can, and have the temperament, work for the big consulting firms right out of college, because those jobs will teach you 10x per year what any other job will, and 100x per year what your rather questionable university education did (if it did at all). I’m not sure I would say so any longer. But I think that’s my own bias because of where I see employment stress in the young. If you can gain access to these companies or their customers you’re not in the ‘stressed’ demographic. 😉

Major consulting firms specialize in strategy, management, reorganization, legal, economic, tax, finance, manufacturing, tech, science, HR, marketing, and sales. With oddly, staffing firms included as well (which consulting firms usually treat with a bit of disdain.)

Now, in my generation, we understood that as law and bureaucracy functioned as the operating system of governments and polities, finance and departments the operating system for manufacturing, that these were maladapted systems for modernity, and that software provided the operating system for human cooperation in organizations. So many of us quickly undrestood that software evolved to reflect best practices, and that with the internet that began to include customer relationship best practices as well.

So there is a reason for the rise in tech companies that not only supply staff, not only supply project responsibility, not only supply reorganization of organizations using software, but who use software to strategically alighn the entire business from front to back. And this put the rising firms out of technology (like mine) in competition for the bottom and midmarket of the top down management consulting firms – closing the gap between the largest corporations, the midmarket, and up into the Fortune 1000.

Now, my present company, is in a bit of a holding pattern while my research on law concludes, and the technology of the browser and AI catch up (they have), because there is a difference between visionary and first mover and visionary and being waaay too early for the technology and market to support it. 😉 That present company produces an ‘everything app’, that is more of a replacement for the shell (user interface to your computer or device), that completes the transition from disconnected files in ‘file systems’ to interconnected everything that’s aware of how to interact with everything else.

And our goal for this product is to complete that sequence of human organization by restoring ‘communities’ in business by extreme transparency, end the centralization of data and AI in the internet age, and instead make your AI work for your benefit. That’s why we use the name and domain ‘Runcible’ from Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Age”. Your device is constantly trying to help you improve and filter out falsehoods, instead of feed centralized data stores that seek to manipulate you for their benefit.

We can run the whole country (or the world for that matter) on this software. And it has no other ambition (or at least the AI has no other ambition) than helping you discover knowledge, utility, the truth, and to insulate you from falshoods, deceits, and outright lies. 😉

Because that’s the end point of human evolution. Not one where we are slaves to machines serving someone else’s interests rather than our own.

And that bit of consulting ought to be the most rewarding in history – for organizing people in and across industries. For organizing people in societies for their personal itnersts. And for organizing people in democratic governmetns so that no one can lie to anyone else – which is the most noble ambition I know of.

Cheers