Introduction: The Deck That Ate the World I want to tell you about the single most destructive artifact of the last twenty years. It is not the smartphone. It is not the algorithm. It is the presentation deck — the pitch, the prompt, the roadmap, the visual outline — the beautiful lie that has replaced…
You are fifty years old. You just earned a new degree. You are fit, sober, and cognitively sharper than most thirty-year-olds in the office. You walk into the lobby of a legacy corporation—one of those grand old institutions that has been running the same career machinery for half a century—to apply for an entry-level position.…