“Disappear Completely” may suffer from diminishing returns, but there’s an ironic pleasure in a movie about a cursed man losing his five senses one at a time that gets gradually worse as you watch it.

You hear this a lot in tech spaces, but it’s not limited to business “disruption.” Radiohead’s Kid A (2000) came about using a similar concept. The band reinvented itself by dismantling the very idea ...