Future of Work — with a stance.
Takes on tools, power, craft and institutions — not a neutral HR digest.
Work is being unbundled. The people who build will outlast the people who wait for a job description.
AI is eating tasks faster than institutions can rename roles. Layoffs, portfolio careers and the office question are symptoms of the same shift: value is moving from position to proof.
We take sides on who gains, who loses and what a sensible person should do about it.
The fights we are tracking right now.
Automation vs apprenticeship
Employee vs builder
Office vs outcome
Speed vs taste
Every Future of Work take we have published lives in the archive.
Each edition is dated, sourced and scored. Read back through our calls, including the ones we got wrong.
How this pillar shows up.
The Take
The Other Side
Builder's Read
Conviction Index
We believe the future belongs to builders, not job-holders.
Every take ends with a move. Not a vibe, not a thread, a thing you can do on Monday.
Ship one public piece of proof every week. A portfolio beats a promotion cycle.
Opinions are cheap on a screen. We test them in a room.
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The pillars argue with each other. On purpose.
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