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But what really blows my noodle is how rare AI skepticism still is in the media. One year ago, ChatGPT was opened to the public. The onslaught of overheated and careless rhetoric about our imminent ascent to a new plane of existence (or our imminent extermination) began then and has not slowed since. It’s inherent to the financial interests of jour... See more

Freddie deBoer • Where Are the AI Skepticism Stories?

Is the promise of gig-economy platforms to deliver high quality at low prices an illusion? Is the truth that the benefits of gig work come at the expense of (mostly desperate) freelancers? As a businessperson who wants to do the right thing, should you ever say no when someone is willing to provide high-quality work for little money? These question

Felix Oberholzer-Gee • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

But in the end, like many of my peers, I felt a sense of disappointment. You have to believe in grand possibilities to endure the pain and difficulty of the selection process to join the French civil service at a senior level. Only once inside do people open their eyes and realize it’s more complicated than expected: the state’s bureaucratic struct

Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age

The lack of professional infrastructure available to support creator led, solo media companies either pushed people back inside the four walls of a company, capping both their creative flexibility and upside, or forced them to try to build their businesses on top of platforms far more incentivized to deliver a network (which, of course, has value) ... See more

Brett Bivens • The Professionalizing Creator Class

When Your Profession is On Fire

Anne Helen Petersen open.substack.com

If a professor is bad or redundant, they won't get students, and they'll get fired or quit.

Nat Eliason • College After COVID: How to Get the Best of Both Worlds - Nat Eliason

But the technocrats draw a sharp distinction between themselves (predominantly white) who are at least engaged in a struggle to transcend oppression in thought and speech and those whites who continue to practice it.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

In my six years at Google, I got to observe this force up close, relentlessly killing features users loved and eroding the last vestiges of creativity and agency from our products. I know this force well, and I hate it, but I do not yet know how to fight it. I call this force the Tyranny of the Marginal User .

Simply put, companies building apps hav... See more

Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User

If we let everyone decide for themselves how they were best fit to benefit humanity, with no restrictions at all, how could they possibly end up with a distribution of labor more inefficient than the one we already have? This is a powerful argument for human freedom.