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Interviewed by Business Editor Nick Lichtenberg for The AI productivity paradox: More work, not less — on what companies actually do with the hours AI hands back. Venki’s example was the Siemens plant at Amberg, which held the same 1,100 employees for twenty years while the technology changed around them, and multiplied output eightfold. Firms that cut instead, he argued, can live off knowledge already banked for a decade or so — and then stop generating any.
The well will run dry.
Venki writes for The Morning Context, the Indian business and technology publication, carrying the argument into contemporary business discourse in India. Two longreads published under his byline, with further pieces in progress.
What four years at the legendary motorcycle maker taught me about India’s most celebrated delusion.
The corporate flatterer is not a spoon that feeds the boss’s ego. He is a mirror — and what he reflects is the leader, and the organization, telegraphed right back.
The Venki Padmanabhan channel carries weekly 15-minute video essays for operations leaders, plant managers, and administrators. The Sam Altman analysis ("640,000 People") passed 19,000 views.
The real-time extension of the argument — daily commentary on manufacturing, automation, healthcare, hospitality, retail, and workforce policy.
Short-form commentary as @VenkiWithAnI — the argument at post length.
The Long Game publishes at thelonggameforall.substack.com on a three-essay-per-week cadence. The essay archive is the public record of the argument as it develops.
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