Episode 16: The Player-Coach Purge

May 14. Cisco reports record revenue. $15.8 billion. Then cuts 4,000 people anyway. The money isn't lost. It's moving from payroll to GPUs.Two days ago, Coinbase announced the end of "pure managers." From now on, it's player-coaches and one-person AI pods. Your boss is now your competitor.Meta's next 8,000 layoffs start tomorrow. Cloudflare cut 1,100 people and its stock tanked anyway. Tech layoffs have topped 100,000 in 5 months. Profitable companies keep trading humans for servers. And investors are finally asking: does the math even work?This isn't automation anymore. This is executives rewriting the fundamental rules of a company. Flatter. Leaner. Fewer humans. More surveillance. And the uncounted left standing on a ladder with fewer and fewer rungs.The uncounted are the Cisco engineer whose job became an AI line item. The Coinbase manager whose entire layer of the org chart vanished. The mid-career professional watching the rules of work change in real time while the headlines pretend everything is fine.You are not alone in this silence. The uncounted are getting louder. The question is whether anyone is listening.Hosted by L. David Oliver, Founder & CEO, Moonshot Consulting.Follow Moonshot:Substack — davidoliver112.substack.comX — @gomoonshotBluesky — @gomoonshot.bsky.socialLinkedIn — L. David Oliver