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Option 3: take a breath. Become conscious of the anxiety this sort of message stirs in you. Consider the possibility that building the next phase of your career around the fear of getting left behind might be a really bad basis for producing the kind of work people will want to pay you for – not to mention (and not unrelatedly) a rather grim way to... See more
Oliver Burkemansubstack.comIdle agents will turn us into even more of productivity monsters
Every industrial leap promised more leisure. Instead, it raised the baseline.
Factories did not shorten ambition. And as agents run 24/7, time becomes even more yield-bearing.
So AI may mean we’ll have more time for “less mundane things”, but markets will likely turn that into higher
On the hiring line
There have always been two sides: Hiring people to do tasks and jobs, or hoping to be hired to do those tasks and jobs.
The difference now is that it’s increasingly difficult to find a good job to get hired for, and easier than ever to be the person who hires an AI or a person to do a task.
Our understanding of ‘entrepreneur’ needs... See more
There have always been two sides: Hiring people to do tasks and jobs, or hoping to be hired to do those tasks and jobs.
The difference now is that it’s increasingly difficult to find a good job to get hired for, and easier than ever to be the person who hires an AI or a person to do a task.
Our understanding of ‘entrepreneur’ needs... See more
On the hiring line
The joy of delegating to competence
AI workflows are technically impressive, but there’s a deeper reason people are really amped about AI agents. This isn’t just new tech, it’s new psychology.
Until now, very few people have known what it feels like to delegate to total competency.
If you manage great people, or lead great teams, you know how it feels