Patti Harrison Grew Up With Tech As Her North Star. Not Anymore.
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I recently chatted with McKinsey's Dan Swan about how businesses successfully transitioned to AI, the coming agentic wave, and even the sad loss of tennis line judges. Here's a sneak peek.
Some people are buying software and calling it a transformation. The people that are really getting the most value from it are fundamentally doing something very different, which is they're taking that technology and they're incorporating it with changing the capabilities of their people, fundamentally redesigning their processes, and tracking the impact through the bottom line.
There's much more in the full interview with Dan Swan, which can be found in its entirety on Wired.com. Also, check out McKinsey's playbook, Rewired, available at your favorite bookseller.
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From Wired, this is The Big Interview. I'm Katie Drummond, Wired's global editorial director. My guest today is the sensational comedy writer and performer Patti Harrison. You may know her from her scene-stealing work on Tim Robinson's I Think You Should Leave.
I sued the city because I was accidentally sewed into the pants of the big Charlie Brown at the Thanksgiving Day parade. I made all my money off the big Charlie Brown, so don't even come and try and tell me any crap. I don't want that!
Sorry. Sorry. I will get it together. But if you have not seen Patty on that show, it's it's very, very funny. You may also know Patty as Ruthie on Hulu's Shrill or from her various appearances on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel. But what you probably don't know, which I didn't know until recently, is that Patty Harrison is a Wired subscriber. Good for us. Good for her. This month, we are putting out a concept issue of Wired called Wired Women. And when we decided on that for September, we obviously knew we needed a woman to put on the cover. Patti immediately came to mind. She's hilarious, a great actor, and I can't stress enough how much she nailed the assignment. So much so that in the end, we didn't just put her on one cover.
We put her on four of them. Welcome, Patti. Hey, thank you. You are so funny and you are often very, and I mean this as a compliment, just like conventionally funny. You've talked before about feeling that sort of pressure to incorporate politics into your work and how you don't necessarily want to, right? And it doesn't necessarily have to be about politics. Being a trans woman, maybe it's about organizing for democratic socialism. Maybe it's about the genocide in Gaza. Just because those things are part of you or part of what you value or important to you, it doesn't mean that your comedy has to be about those things. You've also talked, though, about how those things can't really be separated. How do you think about drawing that line or knowing where that line is?
Yeah, I think there's a balance. Personally, when I started doing comedy in New York, I was working at a restaurant, and I was not that long out of coming out as transgender, and it was my first time living alone in the city, and I was dealing with a lot of agoraphobia, essentially, and just had a really hard time commuting and being out in public and adjusting to society, trying to, like, have a sense of normalcy, trying not to feel afraid, sort of entering or exiting any room that I'm going into. And I think when I was working at this restaurant and dealing with that stuff, I started doing comedy bits that were about anything but that because I think— Doing comedy at that time for me was an escape and it was a place for me to just explore any other sort of ideas outside of my daily strife and sort of my identity prison of that society has kind of like pushed upon me.
And I don't think that's exclusive to transgender people. I think a lot of people are like that. But I think, you know, I think I felt a bit resentful after the first... Kind of big moment comedic for my comedy career was a bit that I did on The Tonight Show that I was brought on to do by two of my very good friends, Joe Firestone and Mike DeCenzo, who are like brilliant comedy writers.
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