Vikram Mekala

What surprised me wasn’t the AI hype, though, but the lack of solidarity that came with it. Faced with the story of AI labor displacement, our first instinct as technology workers wasn’t to protect one another, but to search for ways to use the tools to replace our collaborators.

In other words, instruments can surprise you with what they offer, but they are not automatic. In the end, they require a touch. You use a tool, but you play an instrument. It’s a more expansive way of doing, and the doing of it all is important, because that’s where you develop the instincts for excellence. There is no purpose to better machines... See more

Jeff Bezos famously called advertising, “the price you pay for having an unremarkable product or service

With models taking new leaps forward, AI becomes more capable. I like how Ethan Mollick puts it: “Human in the loop” is evolving from “human who fixes AI mistakes” to “human who directs AI work.” The way I think of it: we’re all middle managers now.

When the cost of creation drastically decreases, asymmetric value is captured by the curator, not the creator.

Key points

• Casual contact in public places has declined as digital systems replace many everyday exchanges.


• Brief interactions with strangers support social confidence and protect against loneliness and low mood.


• Trust in communities shapes whether people expect warmth or caution in public encounters.

By Gabrielle Skrekovski and Kelly-Ann Allen

The... See more

You Have The Right To Work, Not The Fruit Of Work

This is not to say one should do things always anticipating a reciprocal benefit. Perhaps even stronger than the reciprocation tendency is the tendency for nearly everyone and everything to recoil from those who are transparently transactional, whose every action is in expectation of a payoff. I... See more