Future of work
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Does fortune favor the bold? I guess we’ll see
A lot of companies are making a lot of bold moves of late. Bold moves that are even bolder than all the other bold moves we’ve gotten used to since AI changed everyone’s definition of bold. And that’s before the now routine announcements of ever-more-ginormous investments in various AI plays. For all its faults, Meta…
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AI can (and will) change your work, but your value stays the same
The concept of “value” keeps coming up everywhere I look, and not in the purely economic sense. It started with a research report Anthropic released last month, which quantifies how much certain job categories will be exposed to disruption from AI. There’s a cool graph and everything. But it’s sort of a powerful glimpse into…
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The AI struggle is real. The panic is not.
Hot on the heels of the SaaSpocalypse, we have another AI panic a-risin’. This one started when an AI founder’s lengthy essay about the future of work went viral. I won’t link to it; it’s easy to find. But the gist is he told every knowledge worker in every profession in every corner of the…
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SaaSpocalypse now? Nope, not yet
Pull out your sackcloth and ashes. The SaaSpocalypse is upon us. The doomsayer was the launch of plugins for Anthropic’s Cowork. If you’re unfamiliar with Cowork, it’s essentially a fancy wrapper for Claude Code, so that non-techies can take full advantage of the vibecoding revolution without diving into developer environments, too. Well, non-techies who use…
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Let’s get it out of the way: My philosophy on AI and knowledge work
Author’s note: I started writing this post in Dec. 2025 when I decided to launch the site. Even in those few short weeks, it was hard to keep up with the changing direction and even my own sentiment on the topic because of how quickly it’s evolving. This piece is a snapshot in time. Probably…
