Not Boring https://notboring.email/ Business & tech insights that actually matter. en Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:24:01 GMT You Bought the Robot, Now Your Team Moves Slower https://notboring.email/ai-productivity-tools-making-knowledge-workers-slower/ https://notboring.email/ai-productivity-tools-making-knowledge-workers-slower/ Companies are dumping billions into AI tools that promise to 10x their teams—and somehow ending up with workers who are busier, more distracted, and less productive than before. Here's why the AI productivity boom might be the biggest workplace illusion of the decade. Not Boring Technology Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:20:39 GMT The Suits Who Ate Silicon Valley https://notboring.email/private-equity-killing-tech-innovation-rd-budgets/ https://notboring.email/private-equity-killing-tech-innovation-rd-budgets/ Private equity has spent the last decade quietly acquiring some of America's most innovative tech companies—and systematically gutting the things that made them worth buying in the first place. This is the story of how financial engineering became innovation's most effective predator. Not Boring Business Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:20:39 GMT