Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) / X

Peter Girnus 🦅

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Peter Girnus 🦅

@gothburz

The Cyber Populist | Hacker. Writer. Heretic. | Reverse engineering narratives, systems, and power. Holding the pen.

Austin, Texas

substack.com/@gothburz

Joined December 2017

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Peter Girnus 🦅
@gothburz
Dec 11, 2025
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I
Peter Girnus 🦅
@gothburz
Jul 26
I am the Director of Recall Timing at Taylor Farms. Whether we recall the lettuce was decided years ago, upstairs, in a binder nobody reads. That word was never mine. I own the other one. When. By the time you read the word "recall," 1,947 people were already sick, 98 were in a
Peter Girnus 🦅
@gothburz
Jul 26
I am the Director of Reconciliation. I do not work for any of the companies in this story. I work for the desk between them. My desk has two columns. Column A is what the government said you owed. Column B is what you gave. My entire job is the single row that holds them both,
Peter Girnus 🦅
@gothburz
Jul 25
I am the Director of Subscriber Lifecycle, and my entire job is the difference between the button that starts it and the maze that ends it. Starting is one tap. I built that tap. It is large, it is a pleasant color, and it is never more than one screen from wherever you already
Peter Girnus 🦅
@gothburz
Jul 24
I am the Director of Total Rewards at Amazon, and my entire job is one sentence: make sure your taxes pay the half of our payroll that we would rather not. I want to be precise, because Total Rewards is a phrase I chose, and it is working. Total, as in the whole thing. Rewards,