The Rundown AI BLOCK (Jack Dorsey) ditches managers for AI

BLOCK🏗️ Block ditches managers for AIImage source: Lovart / The Rundown

The Rundown: Twitter founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey just co-authored a post arguing AI can replace middle management, framing Block’s recent 40% workforce cut as the opening move in a massive workplace restructure for the AI era

The details: Block cut over 4K employees in February, over 40% of its staff — with Dorsey calling it a bet on AI, not a response to weakness.Dorsey said managers exist to route information up and down a chain, and AI can now do that via a live “world model” of the business. He said everyone at

Block now falls into one of three roles: builders, problem-owners over specific outcomes, and player-coaches who develop talent.

Block is remote-first, and Dorsey says every decision, design, and plan already exists as a digital record, giving AI the raw material to replace managers.

Why it matters: Dorsey’s thesis is an interesting one, especially as lean, AI-first teams go head-to-head with bloated legacy firms that have layers of approval. Block’s bet is that remote work already generated the data, and AI just needed to catch up to use it — but not everyone is going to trust the tech to completely cut out the managerial layer.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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