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The Money is the Message
Distorting the cost of money messes up all economic and social communication. But it also conveys an important truth.
A Bicycle of Inequality
Computers multiply the powers of the human mind. But they affect each person differently, very differently.
How to Create More Taylor Swifts?
Remote Work and Artificial Intelligence offer two ways to better allocate talent.
Remote as a Corporate Need
We tend to think of remote work as a perk demanded by picky (or lazy) employees. But the only reason that remote and flexible work is becoming more prevalent is that capitalism itself requires it. We are at a stage of industrial development that requires organizations to become more flexible,
Retiring from Unemployment
Leisure is more enjoyable when work is no longer an option.
Quiet Quitting, UBI, and Psychic Inequality
You can redistribute money, but can you redistribute meaning? The entertainment industry offers some lessons.
Perks and Harbingers
A row at Saville Row, a transport miracle, Gorbachev, and modular work.
Remote Work is Europe
What happens when you integrate multiple cities and countries into a single labor market? Europe offers important hints about the future of work.
Commodity Kardashians
Technology does not want to replace you. It wants to make you interchangeable.
The Scalable Imagination
📚I am writing a new book about the future of work, cities, and companies. Click here to read the first few pages. The Scalable Imagination0:00/233.8220831× We tend to underestimate technology's power to turn in-person work into scalable work. On the verge of the 20th Century,
