Aquarium guides and essays that linger.
Aquarium guides and essays that linger.
Essays on AI and the changing nature of work: what the new tools reveal about judgment, careers and the way we create.
This morning I spent the better part of an hour trying to find out how many people had visited my own website. I did not find out. I started in the obvious place, which turned out to be the wrong…
Why AI is less of a threat to work than most people fear, what it shows about human judgment, and why that is harder news to sit with. In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor published The Principles of Scientific Management, a…
Picture a freelance writer on a $2,000-a-month retainer. The work is good, the client is solvent, the market is steady. Then one month the client ends the contract with a short note: “We found someone who can do the equivalent…
