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Work, AI & Judgement

Artificial intelligence is not just a new tool — it is a fundamental shift in how knowledge is created, shared, and valued. These essays explore what that means for how we think, work, and build expertise.

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The Last AnimalREDUNDANT9 min

Work, AI & Judgement

The White-Collar Coalfield: Why Your Job Is Having Its 1984 Moment

Margaret Thatcher didn't destroy the coal industry because she hated miners. She destroyed it because the economics of extraction had permanently changed, and the same economics are now closing in on your desk.

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The Last AnimalSource8 min

Work, AI & Judgement

Work Just Went Open Source

Individuals and small partnerships are learning to plug into value creation the way code plugs into an open source project, and the firm is the one being disrupted.

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The Last AnimalSponsored8 min

Work, AI & Judgement

Your Best Memory Is Already Sponsored

Music, memory, and the most powerful mechanism no one is measuring

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The Last AnimalEverything8 min

Work, AI & Judgement

The Five Skills That Will Keep You Relevant When AI Takes Everything Else

AI isn't the threat. Mediocrity dressed as productivity is.

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The Last Animalancient7 min

Work, AI & Judgement

The Body Didn't Get the Memo

Culture moves at the speed of ideas. Biology moves at the speed of natural selection. Everything confusing about the modern world lives in that distance.

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The Last AnimalLadder11 min

Work, AI & Judgement

You’re Not Building a Career. You’re Climbing a Ladder

Status was always the game. Now someone else is running the scoreboard.

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The Last AnimalIntelligence8 min

Work, AI & Judgement

Education Was Designed for the Industrial Age. Our Children Are Growing Up in the Intelligence Age.

When knowledge becomes universally accessible, the central question facing education changes fundamentally.

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The Last AnimalLosing7 min

Work, AI & Judgement

Google Isn't Losing to Better Answers. It's Losing to Less Work.

The real shift isn't about model quality. It's about friction — and what happens when synthesis gets outsourced by default.

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The Last AnimalFallacy8 min

Work, AI & Judgement

The McNamara Fallacy and the AI Usage OKR Trap

Companies that spent the last two years announcing AI transformation are now announcing AI metrics. Which sounds like progress. It isn't.

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The Last Animalwrong8 min

Work, AI & Judgement

Most People Are Solving the Wrong AI Problem

They're asking how to use it faster. The real question is what happens when execution stops being the constraint at all.

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