Long before the truck drivers, it’s your job on the line, right now

Dimitrios K.-L.
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

I’m stuck in a train, one of those “premium” trains to NY, and I see someone with a ThinkPad IBM, Windows 95 (judging out of their looks) staring in a old fashioned Excel spreadsheet, likely thinking he’s doing something sophisticated. I can imagine this folk getting “insights” out of rows and columns and 3 hours later presenting them with a Powerpoint - as if -he was Moses handed The Holy Spreadsheet.

Out of excellent salesmanship, I can see him being admired and having his ideas adopted or whatever. But I can’t resist to think that his job is way due. Long before self-driving cars replace US truck drivers, those super-Excel-jobs have all, already, been automated. Excel-grade “insight” are commodity. Salesmanship is not!

No matter what you do, get rid of your Excel. There’s nothing in it that should give you any sense of job security. If nothing else, it’s a big shiny red warning light indicated that your job has been obsolete for half a decade. I let him now craft another glorious email in Microsoft Outlook 2003.

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