Rethink.
Remake.
Reexamine.
Rework.
Rethink. Remake. Reexamine. Rework.
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Rethinking the Long-Term
A meditation on the long term—the commitments, projects, and relationships we can work on when our "temporal bandwidth" widens.
Rethinking Social Media
According to danah boyd, social media is parasocial media now—and that’s part of why I’m reconsidering my long absence.
Just Because You Can: The Eggbeater Effect Revisited
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Job Loss in the 21st-Century Economy
To tackle the problem of job loss in the 21st-century economy, we need to disentangle “jobs” from “work.”
Apples, Oranges, and Iceberg Metrics
Three rules of thumb for thinking about data and how you use it.
The Wages of Hierarchy
What do elite kitchens have to do with your work environment? Quite a bit.
Technicians, Visionaries, and the Myth of Going Solo
“Who is a business owner?” is a more complicated question than it seems.
Wait, What?!
A “Wait, what?!” moment is a chance to get curious and learn about the systems behind an unexpected event.
Rethinking Higher Education for the 21st-Century Economy
Work and education overlap in all sorts of ways, from the economic to the political to the cultural and social. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, a historian of education and the host of the American Campus Podcast, shares how higher ed has evolved and what that means for the future of work.
Grieving the Future Self
Old assumptions and beliefs created future selves we invested time and effort into—when we deconstruct those beliefs, we must also grieve the selves they bore.
Making Intelligence Masculine Again
What the push for AI everything has to do with the “great feminization” panic—and how both propose to reshape the workplace
What Else Must Be True?
Doing some decision-making? Need to choose between a few good options? Well, a little logic puzzle might help.
Diving into the Deep End
How do you get others to care about what you care about? You have to care about what they care about.
Drifting Toward the Status Quo
Why do ambitious and unconventional missions so often erode into something more like the status quo?
