I think I just learned why Amazon gives out free bananas now!

I was thinking we needed new seasons to cover the crypto crash, layoffs, and gen AI craze. This makes up for so much of it.

Personally I prefer the bureaucratic sabotage manual the OSS (the predecessor of the CIA) published during WWII, to advise Nazi-occupied workers on how to slow business to a crawl. Which, funny enough, sometimes reads like a description of bad management practices in general!

https://www.hsdl.org/c/abstract/?docid=750070

An HN favourite, with 35 submissions.

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