Your Company Has a New Religion — And You Didn't Vote For It | Book Takeaways for Professional Growth Podcast

Does your workplace trust dashboards more than your judgment? Do metrics decide your value before you even speak? You're not imagining it — and a 30-year-old book predicted exactly how we got here.

In this episode of The Postman Files on Technology and Career, we unpack Neil Postman's Technopoly (1992) book — a prescient masterwork on culture and technology that reads like it was written for today's AI-driven workplace. Postman argues that modern organizations don't just use technology — they surrender to it. Efficiency replaces ethics. Data overrides experience. And knowledge workers — the thinkers, advisors, and leaders — are quietly the most at risk. If you're navigating AI in the workplace, feeling reduced to a sc ...