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The history professor Nelson Lichtenstein told me, “What you can’t measure, you can’t reward,” and that may be why executives are so focused on work hours. For decades, the corporate world has been consumed with metrics. Managers love tangible measures by which they can determine success or failure. Work hours is one of the easiest ways to measure... See more

People rarely mean the same thing when they say “work”, nor do they realize that they don’t mean the same thing. For people who are in that category called “employee” work means one thing and for people who own the business “work” means another thing. Although they look a lot alike in the outside, it is actually the invisible parts of “work” that... See more

I want to see more tools and fewer operated machines - we should be embracing our humanity instead of blindly improving efficiency. And that involves using our new AI technology in more deft ways than generating more content for humans to evaluate. I believe the real game changers are going to have very little to do with plain content generation.

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I like the process of choosing the words I commit to posterity on the internet. I don’t just like it, I cherish it . That’s why, when I outsourced this task to AI in an attempt to be more productive, I was left unimpressed, and gradually, I stopped trying to use LLMs altogether.

I wanted to have a better relationship with this new technology, and... See more

The only way out from this rat race I can see is to re-create a safe space. When you are no longer consumed by the worry that is career sustenance and growth, at least a subset of folks might choose to work on what they think is important. Signalling will never fully die of course, but perhaps we can dampen it.

Its not a pure argument to reduce the... See more