Work & Careers
Hiring, workforce change and the engineering job market.
Catching Sight: Letting Guide Dogs Lead the Way as Teammates
Deni Elliott’s *Catching Sight* explores how guide dogs share their canine-based perceptions and why humans must respond with trust, affirmation, and ethical collaboration.
Social Intelligence Is Born in the Space Between Minds—Not Inside Them
Why intelligence only emerges when agents coordinate, and what that means for AI and human cognition.
Dear 2026 Graduates: Your AI Future Isn’t a Threat—It’s a Toolkit
A human guide to finding meaningful work in an AI-driven economy, grounded in data and the quiet power of human judgment.
Remote's $300M Payroll Empire Runs on AI — And Nobody Got Hired to Build It
Amsterdam-based payroll provider Remote crossed $300M ARR and hit cash-flow positivity — not by cutting costs, but by growing revenue per employee 50% through company-wide AI adoption. The CEO says the real story is how agentic AI and a new Model Context Protocol interface are reshaping global payroll infrastructure.
CISOs Are Drowning in AI Threats — And Nobody's Hiring Enough People to Help
AI is making cybersecurity harder, faster, and more exhausting for CISOs. Yet companies keep demanding more security talent instead of fixing the workload crisis. Here's what's really going wrong — and what smart leaders are doing about it.
The Reverse Centaur Economy: How AI’s Labor Fantasy Is Fueling a $1.4 Trillion Bubble
Cory Doctorow’s ‘Reverse Centaur’ framework reveals how AI’s promise of a workerless future is driving unsustainable capital spending, transforming human labor into disposable appendages — and setting the stage for a catastrophic economic correction.
The President's Uneven Reach: Managing Markets, Ignoring Labor’s Share
An analytical deep-dive into presidential market influence, interest rates, and labor's declining share of output—challenging myths of executive control over the economy.
Alphabet Stock Plunges 5%, Marking Record One-Day Value Loss Amid Talent Exodus
Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) experienced its steepest single-day market value decline, dropping 5% as market pressures and an intensified AI talent exodus sparked a sharp valuation re-adjustment. Analysis of the $115 billion market drop, internal engineering friction, and broader AI sector cap-ex reassessment.
The Collaborative Apes: How Evolutionary Biology Explains Evolved Altruism and Community Trust
An exploration of positive evolutionary psychology, revealing how the same adaptive mechanisms that explain human conflict also drive our deepest capacities for cooperation, trust, and egalitarian community building.
Deprecating the Legacy Footprint: My Blueprint Analysis of Oracle's 21,000-Employee Reorganization
Oracle cuts 21,000 employees as it shifts resources to OCI AI supercomputing infrastructure. Analysis of the workforce reduction, Cerner integration, and operational security implications.
Sweden's Fika Jobs Raises $4 Million to Replace Resumes with Interactive AI-Led Video Portfolios
Stockholm-based Fika Jobs has raised a $4M pre-seed round to substitute traditional resume screening with video profiles created via ten-minute conversations with Gemini-powered AI interviewers.
20 Years of Intel Macs: How Paul Otellini Convinced Jobs and Why Apple Switched Again
A deep dive into the 20-year history of Intel-based Macs, Paul Otellini's pivotal role in convincing Steve Jobs to adopt Intel chips in 2005, and the strategic reasons behind Apple's return to custom silicon with Apple Silicon.