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Obsolescence as Competitive Strategy

Jun 01, 2026
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Joe O’Donnell, once a short seller, now builds software that compresses weeks of analytical labour into hours. The gesture is worth examining — not for its novelty, which is overstated, but for what it reveals about the structure of expertise and the conditions under which it becomes a liability. BizToc

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