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In case youve been living under a rock and havent heard, the Tesla Diner opened its doors in Hollywood last week, and online reviews have been pouring in. While some raved about the food, others were left underwhelmed. One TikTok user said her family waited five hours to get into the retro-futuristic spota common complaint among reviews. @marinaodinn Tesla Diner Review In Los Angeles, CA #tesladiner #tesla #teslatok #teslacheck #losangeles #teslacybertruck #teslamodel3 #foodtiktok #foodie #eating #eatingasmr #burger #burgers #fries #waffle #friedchicken #elon #elonmusk #foodblogger #foodinfluencer #fyp Classy saxophone jazz in the hotel lounge(1461808) – ricca Sampling the entire menu, which is served in Cybertruck-shaped boxes, she gave the spicy chicken sandwich a 10 out of 10 and called the tuna melt a sleeper hit. The imaginatively named Tesla Burger, however, was giving overcooked smash burger, she said. Another popular food reviewer, who posts under the handle @1hrlunchbreak, ordered $100 worth of food, including the hot dog (7.8 out of 10), the cinnamon roll (8.4), and the buttermilk biscuit with chorizo gravyminus a missing eggwhich still earned a 7. Overall the food was good but I wouldnt put anything in the 9s, he concluded. @1hourlunchbreak Every Tesla Diner Item #foodreview #eat #taste #losangeles original sound – 1 Hour Lunch Break The online menu, created by Le Cordon Bleu graduate Eric Greenspan (who also helped launch MrBeast Burger), features items like a grilled cheese, Wagyu beef chili, fried chicken and waffle, breakfast taco, egg sandwich, fries, and a variety of drinks. Rolling Stone reporter Miles Klee went viral on X after sharing an expectation-vs.-reality photo of the $12 Epic Bacon (now removed from the menu). I mean quality of the meat and cooking aside, if you want to serve bacon like fries you might at least get the right size container, he wrote. went today and heres how it actually looks https://t.co/f5ry9NzPAn pic.twitter.com/SfkdITYF8e— Madame Bovary Summer (@youwouldntpost) July 25, 2025 Alongside the diner, the venue includes a drive-in movie theater (R.I.P. the neighboring apartments view), a charging station, and, often, gatherings of Tesla Takedown protestors. This feels very dystopian, one reviewer wrote. Tesla owners can order from their cars and receive priority in line, but one Tesla-driving reviewer sill described the visit as the worst dining experience of my life. Their Tesla apps ordering feature didnt work, which is reportedly a common issue. After joining the regular line and waiting more than an hour for their food, they eventually gave up and requested a refund. The overall vibe was total chaos, the reviewer said. @letsgo.travelguide Tried the new Tesla Diner and it was hands down the worst food experience Ive had in LA. App didnt work, line was 2 hours, food took forever, and it was total chaos inside. Cool design, but thats about it. #TeslaDiner #LAfood #tesla #LAeats #RestaurantReview #la #losangeles #california Suave – The Pianist & D’Michel leb The diner has long been a dream of Elon Musk’s. In 2018, the Tesla CEO tweeted, Gonna put an old school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant at one of the new Tesla Supercharger locations in LA. Seven years on, he declared the finished restaurant to be one of the coolest spots in LA! I just had dinner at the retro-futuristic @Tesla diner and Supercharger.Team did great work making it one of the coolest spots in LA! https://t.co/wRuyeh9x00— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2025 That depends on who you ask. The last place I want to end up is a parking lot full of Tesla drivers, one TikTok user said. Id rather eat at an Applebees.
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Everyone’s obsessing over whether AI will steal their jobs. They’re asking the wrong question. While headlines scream about AI replacing workers41% of employers are planning to downsize, half of entry-level jobs are vanishingthey’re missing the real transformation. The question isn’t who gets replaced. It’s what happens to everyone who remains. Here’s the contrarian truth: AI isn’t just eliminating jobs. It’s eliminating the entire concept of traditional management. And that may be the best thing that could happen to your career. The great flattening Middle management exists primarily for one reason: to be human routers of information. Managers aggregate data from below, filter it, and pass it upward. They take strategy from above, translate it, and cascade it downward. They’re essentially organizational middleware. But what happens when AI can route information instantly, surface insights automatically, and coordinate work seamlessly? The middleware becomes redundant. At Fireflies, we’ve proven this isn’t just a theory. We operate with minimal hierarchyindividual contributors earn more than managers. Our AI captures every conversation, tracks every decision, and ensures nothing falls through the cracks. The result? A radically flat organization where everyone operates like the CEO of their domain. Welcome to the mini-CEO era When information flows freely and AI handles coordination, something profound happens: Every employee gains the context and tools previously reserved for executives. Picture this: A customer success manager (CSM) notices during three client calls that users are struggling with the same feature. Instead of scheduling meetings and writing reports, the CSM queries their AI teammate for pattern analysis across all customer conversations. Within minutes, data shows that 47% of enterprise clients mention this friction point. The AI teammate goes on to draft a feature improvement proposal, tag the product team, and by day’s end, it’s prioritized for the next sprint. That action used to require three departments and five approval layers. Now it’s one person with AI amplification making executive-level decisions. Or consider the sales rep who uses conversational intelligence to track competitor mentions across every sales call in the company. They spot a pricing pattern, adjust their proposal strategy, and close three deals that would have been lost. No sales ops team needed. No pricing committee. Just real-time intelligence and autonomous action. This isn’t empowerment theater. It’s a fundamental reorganization of power. Resistance is futile Traditional organizations will fight this. They’ll create “AI committees” and “transformation task forces” stuffed with the very middle managers whose roles are evaporating. They’ll add layers to manage the technology that’s supposed to remove layers. They’ll lose. Because while they’re debating governance frameworks, their competitors are unleashing armies of mini-CEOs because each employee is armed with AI teammates that multiply their impact tenfold. Each person is making decisions at the speed of thought, not the speed of bureaucracy. Its your move The choice is stark: Evolve or become irrelevant. If you’re an employee, start acting like a mini-CEO today. Use AI to expand your scope. Make decisions beyond your pay grade. The old rules are dead. If you’re a leader, stop protecting hierarchies that technology has already made obsolete. Give your people AI teammates and radical autonomy. Yes, it’s scary to surrender control. But the alternativewatching competitors move at 10 times your speedis scarier. The future of work isn’t about humans versus AI. It’s about humans with AI superpowers, operating in radically flat organizations where everyone thinks and acts like an owner. Middle management is dead. Long live the mini-CEO. Krish Ramineni is CEO and cofounder of Fireflies.ai.
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For generations, businesses were built on an extractive model: take resources, create products, generate profit, repeat. It was efficient but not enduring. With todays extreme weather events, resource scarcity, social unrest, and declining employee sense of well-being, the cracks in that model are increasingly hard to ignore. Simply put: Extraction is no longer sustainable. Humans long for what is real and enduring. When I look to the natural world, I see a different blueprint for our future: regeneration. Healthy ecosystems don’t just survive; they replenish, adapt, and thrive. At Rodale Institute, where we have championed regenerative organic agriculture for 78 years, we see this every day in the soil beneath our feet. Our founders son, Robert Rodale, defined regeneration as an innate, natural capacity for renewal and healing. Its time for business leaders to take notice. The future of businessand our societydepends on our ability to move from extraction to regeneration. How businesses can embrace regenerative practices Regenerative thinking is more than a philosophy for farming; it is a framework for leadership and enterprise. It calls on us to ask ourselves how we create systems that renew themselves, including the human beings who work within those systems. How can our companies generate not only financial profit but also ecological, social, and human resilience? In agriculture, regenerative organic practices rebuild topsoil, sequester carbon, and increase biodiversity, leading to healthier soil, healthier ecosystems, and healthier people. In business, regenerative practices can similarly replenish the human and natural resources we rely on. Organizations that focus on the well-being of their employees, invest in sustainable supply chains, and build trust with communities are laying the foundation for long-term success in a volatile world. The top 500 U.S. companies, with their scale, influence, and capital, are uniquely positioned to go beyond sustainability and embrace regenerative practices by reimagining how they use profits, design products, and engage with place. By reinvesting a portion of their earnings into regenerative capital, such as funding ecological restoration projects, employee wellness initiatives, community-owned enterprises, or nature-based solutions, they can shift from extractive profit models to ones that actively repair and renew. At the product level, adopting circular economy principles, like designing for durability, reuse, and offering products as a service, helps eliminate waste and align business success with long-term environmental health. Additionally, through place-based stewardship, companies can partner with local communities to restore ecosystems around their facilities, support indigenous land practices, or co-create green spaces. Together, these approaches move large enterprises beyond sustainability toward becoming active agents of regeneration across economic, material, and ecological systems. Even small organizations, though limited in scale, have a unique ability to embed regenerative practices into their everyday operations in deeply meaningful ways. By cultivating a living employee cultureoffering flexible schedules, well-being stipends, or regeneration days for rest or community servicethey can foster workplaces where people thrive, not just perform. Sourcing from local, ethical suppliers, such as nearby farms, artisans, or BIPOC-owned businesses, helps regenerate regional economies and ecosystems while reducing environmental impact. Even seemingly small actions like upcycling materials, composting, or collaborating with local artists and nonprofits to reuse waste can transform byproducts into creative value. These practices not only restore ecological and social systems but also build more resilient, purpose-driven businesses from the ground up. Leaders in regenerative work We already see this shift in action. Companies like Patagonia, Citizens of Humanity, Dr. Bronners, and SIMPLi are embracing regenerative principles and attracting loyal customers, retaining top talent, and building resilience against supply chain disruptions and environmental risks. They are moving beyond quarterly earnings to measure impact in terms of stakeholder well-being, carbon reduction, and community health. They are finding that purpose and profit are not mutually exclusive; they reinforce each other. This shift requires courage. Regenerative systems do not offer instant returns. They require a willingness to invest patiently, to think beyond the next quarter, and to cultivate resilience rather than extract efficiency. Just as healthy soil yields stronger crops year after year, regenerative businesses are more likely to weather the storms, literal and metaphorical, that the future will inevitably bring. Regeneration is about playing the long game. Rooted in regeneration At Rodale Institute, our mission is simple, yet critical: soil health is human health. I believe the same equation applies to business. Healthy organizations rooted in regeneration will create healthier economies, healthier societies, and a healthier planet. The future will belong to leaders who recognize that regeneration is not a buzzword; it is a survival strategy. Its time to ask ourselves: Are we depleting the resources we depend on, or are we cultivating their renewal? Are we building companies that will outlast us, or ones that will collapse under their own weight? The choice is ours. The time is now. Jeff Tkach is CEO of Rodale Institute.
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