671 - The End of Jobs with Jeff Wald
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671 - The End of Jobs with Jeff Wald
This shift has ushered in what Every’s Dan Shipper calls an allocation economy, where the value of work increasingly hinges not on traditional labor but on how we allocate scarce resources—time, attention, and focus. In this new paradigm, the question becomes less about what AI can do and more about how we choose to use it, what we allow it to... See more
Katie Parrott • The Past: A Brief History of Knowledge Work
Building collective organizations as 'mids' to hedge against randomness and create sustainable success beyond individual content creation
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Now, imagine the following situation. What if you formed an organization with 10 or maybe 100 other people, and here's how this works. You're going to cooperate together in that you're all going to brand yourselves collectively, like as if you were a band or a magazine or a sports club or something.
You're creating this thing, and that's the mid. A
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Everyone "knows" that as AI gets better, humans become less valuable. Except three economists just proved the exact opposite using math from 1973 and Steve Jobs.
And it explains something that's been driving researchers crazy...
Why did computers make inequality WORSE but ChatGPT is making... See more
For years, we feared automation would replace humans. But as AI reshapes the economy, it’s becoming clear that far from replacing human ingenuity, AI has amplified it. The critical dividing line in our economy is no longer simply education or specialization, but rather agency itself: the raw determination to make things happen without waiting for... See more
Pirate Wires • Agency Is Eating the World
AI displacing jobs and its profound impact on human identity, purpose, and societal interactions
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And I think a lot of people have a problem with that because their entire identity and how they think of themselves and how they fit in the community is what they do. Like this is Mike. He's an amazing mechanic. Go to Mike and Mike takes care of things. But there's going to come a point in time where AI is going to be able to do all those
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