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Although the inner life is developed through a relationship with externals – whether it’s books, art or nature, philosophy or religion – the inner life is a private place.

Working class. As the great historian of labour E. P. Thompson put it, ‘Class is a relationship. Not a thing.’ That is, class is mistaken for a noun, like horse, or house, but class doesn’t exist in its own right. It isn’t a thing. And it isn’t a natural phenomenon – like gravity. In an equal society, class would not exist. Social division is relat

Our liveliest connections with others, or with a piece of art, or an experience, are invisible (no hardware), yet they are the strongest and most profound parts of life.

We don’t all have to make groundbreaking discoveries. Women don’t have to be ‘the best’. Women need to be everywhere, in every role, every workforce – and not at entry level, not at part-time and piecework level, but right in the centre of it all – and in management, taken seriously alongside their male colleagues, not worrying about what will I we

Human animals can and do change our stories. Tech and AI is part of that changing story – but unless we can change the fixed ideas in our heads, then tech and AI could easily become the dystopian disaster so many of us fear.

Wages have only been used as a metric of progress since industrialisation and the creation of a wage-earning working class. And, of course, wages say nothing about the well-being, independence, happiness, and mental health that come from productive, pleasurable activities that are economically viable, but resistant to straight-line capitalist metri

Wages have only been used as a metric of progress since industrialisation and the creation of a wage-earning working class. And, of course, wages say nothing about the well-being, independence, happiness, and mental health that come from productive, pleasurable activities that are economically viable, but resistant to straight-line capitalist metri

How we manage the next revolution doesn’t have to be a societal nightmare with benefits eventually trickling down from the few to the many.

Whatever your day job, you, me, all of us are working for the tech companies for no pay. Free stuff is not free. Give your data, give yourself.