“The Future of Work in an Age of Distraction”
I'm off to Europe today for a 3-week research and speaking tour, but before I leave I wanted to flag this just-published interview I did with Andrew Curry
In Squaw Valley
I’m at Squaw Valley for the Gruter Institute conference, giving a talk about the future of work. It’s a very intersting time, and not just because it’s up
Finland’s basic income experiment ends
Finland has been running a limited experiment with Universal Basic Income, and has decided to pull the plug. The experiment with so-called universal basic income has captured global
“Like an empire that has expanded too far, work may be both more powerful and more vulnerable than ever before”
Commute time on the Singapore subway The Guardian has recently has been publishing some terrific essays on the future of work. Peter Fleming's piece earlier this week (and
Wealth, inequality, populism, and the end of the Roman Republic
This Lawfare podcast with Mike Duncan, author of The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Late Republic, is well worth a listen if
“nobody knows what is going to happen but everyone can explain it afterwards”
Britain cannot leave Europe any more than Piccadilly Circus can leave London. Europe is where we are, and where we will remain. Britain has always been a European
“When you buy a Smart Thing, you get locked into its software ecosystem… whether you like it or not.”
Jon Evans has a short but well-done piece about “The Internet Of Someone Else’s Things,” in which he argues that the Internet of Things will subtly redefine ownership
Procrastination and our future selves
Nautilus has a good short piece about research on how we see our future selves. I devoted a couple paragraphs of the book to this subject, so I
A profession as bad off as academia: Protestant clergy
At least that’s the impression I get from this Atlantic piece by David Wheeler, which describes issues facing new clergy that would sound very familiar at the AHA:
C. S. Lewis: “you can’t study men”
"I happen to believe that you can’t study men, you can only get to know them, which is quite a different thing.” (C. S. Lewis in That Hideous