{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-blog-js","path":"/blog/codex_of_actors/","webpackCompilationHash":"6e350c735c4b6e41f907","result":{"pageContext":{"isCreatedByStatefulCreatePages":false,"posts":[{"node":{"fields":{"slug":"/blog/the-company-as-a-typewriter/"},"html":"<p><img src=\"/images/the_company_is_a_typewrite.png\" alt=\"The Company as a Typewriter: a human silhouette made of letters of the alphabet\"></p>\n<p><em>A chapter from <a href=\"https://github.com/corezoid/research/tree/main/codex-of-actors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Codex of Actors</a> by <a href=\"https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0489-7881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Alexander Vityaz</a></em></p>\n<p>All books on management, careers, and business are suddenly past their sell-by date (which hasn't stopped them from selling well). They teach us how to manage people, communicate with people, and compete with people and companies made up of people.</p>\n<p>Most of them read suspiciously like Jerry Toner's <em>How to Manage Your Slaves</em>. Its slave-owning narrator would feel right at home with a modern manager's to-do list: find the right people, divvy up the work, get results, and stay in control.</p>\n<p>At the root of this resemblance is an anthropocentric—and already archaic—view of companies and work. AI is beginning to change the cast of characters, creating a new class of nonbiological workers: semi-autonomous today, autonomous soon.</p>\n<p>\"The Company as a Typewriter,\" a chapter from <em>Codex of Actors</em>, sees the company as a text-producing machine. It reads and writes around the clock: emails, contracts, documents, programs, messages, logs…</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>How many of these texts can a company simultaneously see, take into account, and—above all—understand?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/415301439_The_Company_as_a_Typewriter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Read the full chapter</a></p>","frontmatter":{"date":"2026-10-07","title":"The Company as a Typewriter","url":"the-company-as-a-typewriter","description":"Alexander Vityaz on why management books written for human-only companies are outdated, and how to see a company as a machine that reads and writes texts.","metaTitle":"The Company as a Typewriter: A Chapter from Codex of Actors | Corezoid","metaDescription":"Alexander Vityaz on why management books written for human-only companies are outdated, and how to see a company as a machine that reads and writes texts.","author":"Alexander Vityaz","citation":"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/415301439_The_Company_as_a_Typewriter","image":"/images/the_company_is_a_typewrite.png","lang":"en","category":["News"],"subcategory":[""],"next":"corezoid-certified-claude-partner-network","tags":["corezoid","ai","codex_of_actors","actors","future_of_work","alexander_vityaz"]}}}],"length":1,"page":1,"postsOnPage":10,"locale":"","tag":"codex_of_actors"}}}