In a recent TED Talk, David Lee talks about the future of jobs in the wake of automation. It’s not a new topic by any means, but it’s one I’m always willing to talk about. Speaking as someone who works in the already highly automated job of retail (I’m barely necessary except for scanning and…
Patreon Update(s)/Introduction July was a very troublesome month for me emotionally and so, ironically, in a month where I had very little of my dog sitting left, I produced (slightly) less content than I had in the previous few months. Most of this can be attributed to that lovely phenomenon known as depression. I had…
(Nick’s Notes: This article was inspired by this talk by Laura Vanderkam) I struggle a lot with managing my time and figuring out what’s a priority on my to-do list and what isn’t. When I’m in work as much as I dislike it, it does give a certain rigid structure to my day. I can…
I’ll never apologize for tasteless puns. But for the record, even I thought this pun was a bad one. It’s a mix of Michael Huemer’s The Problem of Political Authority (a wonderful book I’ve reviewed on C4SS here and here) and the subject of today’s article: economist Michael Autor. More specifically, Autor’s recent thoughts from a TED talk he did…
Last October NPR had a roundup of various TED talks about work and how we derive meaning from it. Fortunately/unfortunately, I’ve already commented on a lot of these themes and even responded specifically to one of the folks who are mentioned, Barry Schwartz. There’s a few things from him in the TED talk that I…
If I was as witty as Jennifer Matusi’s article Abolish All Work Immediately from Counterpunch then I’d remark that my nosebleed that I got after finishing this article (for the second time) was from the article and not from picking at my (congested) nose. But no one is apparently as witty as Matusi as they…
On the other hand some forms of procrastination…
I: What is Industrial Democracy? I throw around a lot of negativity from time to time about the potential we all have to undermine work in some serious and promising ways. It isn’t that I enjoy being negative that I do this, I just appreciate a dash of cynicism and skepticism with my optimism that…
Not too long ago Margaret Heffernan, a former CEO of multiple businesses, gave a talk during a TED conference about the “pecking order” of various businesses. Places where getting to the top, competing against one another, being the most productive and so on are valued above all else. There’s little (if any) time for talking…