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“We've all experienced watching a company we love or admire be warped and broken beyond recognition; until it's a husk of its former self, or worse. I wanted to understand why. And I wanted to know what all of us can do to stop that from happening.”

Enshittification and maximizing founder/shareholder/c-suite profit?

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Those are symptoms. The real question is, what are the deeper causes? I think the book gives a pretty clear and convincing answer, but then again, I wrote it, so you'll have to judge for yourself.

Most of all, I want to restore people's sense of agency to do something about this. We are not helpless in the face of these forces. In fact, we are the originators of them.

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