Subtract

How Do You Run a Company When You Can’t See Six Months Ahead? - with Axios CEO Jim VandeHei

Beyond The Prompt - How to use AI in your company, 16 September 2026. The book comes up at 27 min 24 sec in.

A host introduces the concept of measuring AI-driven 'word deletions' by referencing Leidy Klotz, author of Subtract, who appeared on a previous episode of Beyond the Prompt. The host summarises Klotz's argument that subtraction is systematically undervalued because removing something leaves no visible evidence of work, making it hard to credit people for it — unlike addition, where you can point to what you built.

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