🤑 How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America. “The spreadsheet promoted a view of the corporation as something to be optimized: a bundle of assets, liabilities, and agreements that could be understood completely with, well, a spreadsheet. There are certain things in the making of a great company that are illegible and unquantifiable, and which even go against a purely financial logic. The very best companies behave more like cults or armies than like bundles of assets.”

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