The heart of organizations is tension, which when productive can lead to great outcomes. If it goes to extremes, disaster. This week, we discuss tension at OpenAI between its non-profit mission and massive ambitions, the tensions of hacking attention to sell products, the Trump tension between the truth and making a valid a point, and the tension between tech changing consumer expectations and media business models.

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NotebookLM from Google.
Seb Young's music project, Chronically Offline.
Eating the pets video.
Channel 5, Aurora Migrant Gang 'Takeover'

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Productive Tension