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A review by rick2
Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley--Making AI Serve Us All by Greg Shaw, Kevin Scott
2.0
I wanted to significantly more from the “CTO of Microsoft.”
this is mostly collection of feel good AI/ML use cases, low-grade Microsoft propaganda, and some average storytelling. There’s some sweeping statements about how the technology is going to reshape everything that we know about work, and so on and so forth. other people have done it better. The use cases with agriculture I agreed with, and there was an attempt to kind of bridge the technical to the human, but It just didn’t quite work.
I thought the attempts to wrestle with national and regional economics around rural communities and across the US mostly failed. Most of it is super service level and seem to mostly the window dressing. It’s like hearing ESPN statistics about football players. They’re kind of cool I guess but they don’t really tell you anything deeper about what’s going on in the game.
there’s some nods to how Microsoft is trying to work with local communities and encourage people to go into a career at Microsoft. Cool I guess. Mostly a miss and at worst these parts felt like PR nonsense.
And lastly, there’s some personal stories that were decent, but realistically not super well written or incredibly compelling. The rest of the book was pretty mediocre, so I wish this had been the focus and I might have at least learned a bit about what it takes to be CTO of a multinational tech company.
I think this book tried to be too many things and ended up not being very good at any one thing. It’s interesting at times but not anything special.
this is mostly collection of feel good AI/ML use cases, low-grade Microsoft propaganda, and some average storytelling. There’s some sweeping statements about how the technology is going to reshape everything that we know about work, and so on and so forth. other people have done it better. The use cases with agriculture I agreed with, and there was an attempt to kind of bridge the technical to the human, but It just didn’t quite work.
I thought the attempts to wrestle with national and regional economics around rural communities and across the US mostly failed. Most of it is super service level and seem to mostly the window dressing. It’s like hearing ESPN statistics about football players. They’re kind of cool I guess but they don’t really tell you anything deeper about what’s going on in the game.
there’s some nods to how Microsoft is trying to work with local communities and encourage people to go into a career at Microsoft. Cool I guess. Mostly a miss and at worst these parts felt like PR nonsense.
And lastly, there’s some personal stories that were decent, but realistically not super well written or incredibly compelling. The rest of the book was pretty mediocre, so I wish this had been the focus and I might have at least learned a bit about what it takes to be CTO of a multinational tech company.
I think this book tried to be too many things and ended up not being very good at any one thing. It’s interesting at times but not anything special.