WeWork and the Death of Leisure
From today’s New York Times “Opinion” by Ginia Bellafante This past week, Hudson’s Bay, whose story begins 347 years ago in the fur trade, making it the oldest company in…
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In the Fight Against Poverty, Work Is Our Most Powerful Weapon
From today’s Harvard Business Review by Leila Janah: Fourteen years ago, I left suburban Los Angeles to teach English in rural Ghana. I’d expected, like so many young people with…
The Maddeningly Simple Way Tech Companies Can Employ More Women
From the New York Times, August 15, 2017 by Katherine Zaleski: I am the co-founder of a company that helps clients find ways to diversify their work force. We recently…
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Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs
From today’s New York Times by Jack Ewing: SINTRA, Portugal — The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of…
A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree
From today’s New York Times by Steve Lohr: ROCKET CENTER, W.Va. — A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income…
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Is the Gig Economy Working?—For Some, But Not For Most Workers
From this month’s The New Yorker magazine by Nathan Heller: The American workplace is both a seat of national identity and a site of chronic upheaval and shame. The industry…
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How Tech Companies are Waging “Psyops” Warfare on American and British Democracies
From yesterday’s Guardian by Carole Cadwalladr: In June 2013, a young American postgraduate called Sophie was passing through London when she called up the boss of a firm where she’d…
Trumpism: The Dangers of Disruption
From today’s New York Times (Opinion Section): by Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow, Stanford University In Silicon Valley, where I live, the word “disruption” has an overwhelmingly positive valence: Thousands of…
End the Tyranny of 24/7 Email
From yesterday’s NYT “Opinion” by Clive Thompson: This Labor Day weekend, odds are you’ll peek at your work email on your “day off” — and then feel guilty about it.…
When Tech Makes Work Worse
From yesterday’s NYT “Op-Talk” Blog by Anna North: When we talk about robots taking people’s jobs, we often mean it almost literally — we envision if not the humanoid androids…