Whatever happens in the global anglophone techno-capitalist world is downstream from the social dynamics amongst four active player archetypes.
Active player archetype 1 - The genius. The one who invents, grokking five different disciplines at a world expert level. This person has a thousand yard stare, makes a cameo every few months -, has a side gig as a monk in rural Japan, is feared by many, loved by some, and understood by nobody. This is the person who invents languages, builds libraries, advances automation to the point where the cloud becomes tenable (somehow grasps the power infrastructure as well), holds an entirely inexplicable understanding of the hyperparameters and architectural choices behind ML models in working memory - and in a process indistinguishable from magic, just makes it work.
It is this first archetype who sets a thing in motion, all with good intentions, but what happens after is well beyond the genius’ control.
Apart from keeping us all gainfully employed, there’s a reason we should be thankful that the genius has chosen to work in tech.
If such persons weren’t gainfully employed in tech, the world would have an unabomber every decade,
Player archetype 2 - The B2B founder.
This is the primary workhorse of the hype cycle. The B2B founder takes what the inventor has made, applies it to a specific niche, and declares the existence of new magic that would profoundly change one corner of the world.
The B2B founder is the Edmund Hillary of the hype cycle, the ones urging us to summit the peak of inflated expectations.
Player archetype 3: the serious global executive.
The serious global executive (SGE) wears suits, travels, knows much about airport lounges. He reads The Wired, like his MBA prof read The HBR.
I choose the pronoun with care. Workplace delusion is a male thing.
The SGE kinda sorta gets what the new thing is about, but not quite. Like financiers from medieval Europe and contemporary politicians everywhere, all the SGE cares about is personal ambition. There’s no moral or aesthetic compass.
The ascent phase is dear to the SGE because it lets him promise the world, buy time to ride out the current cycle, and quit in time to ride the next.
The SGE is great on LinkedIn and lurks on Twitter.
Player archetype 4 - The think bro. The think bros are the carnival barkers of the circus. Like the perma-revolutionaries of politics, they like nothing better than the IDEA of tech being at an “inflection point”.
They were on RPA in 2020, “supply chain provenance with blockchain’ in ‘21, AGI today, Nobody knows the future, but you can bet your bottom dollar that the think bro will be on it.
“Think bro” is gender neutral.
The think bro wears suits. A few became big on twitter in the SMAC era, but are now left with masses of zombie followers.
The think bro is courtier to the SGE, courts the founder, but the founder cannot be bothered. The founder too wants a side gig as a think bro.
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