Job descriptions are written to fill a position. That sounds obvious, but it’s worth thinking about for a moment. The document exists to define a container: a set of responsibilities, a level, or a function….
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Why Cities Fought Back
When planners began redesigning cities as machines, the logic seemed obvious. Efficiency, order, optimization: housing here, work there, traffic moving cleanly between them. It was the vision of architects like Le Corbusier, a city engineered…
The Wrong First Question
The first question most people get asked about work is: what do you do? It’s a reasonable question, and it’s also the wrong one to start with. What you do changes. Skills needed right now…
Not a Ladder
Career advice still mostly uses the ladder metaphor. You climb, move up, get promoted, and maybe reach the next level. It’s a clean image. It’s also not how most careers actually work anymore, and probably…
Systems Optimize Work. Humans Create Value.
A century ago, Le Corbusier looked at chaotic industrial cities and concluded the problem was design. Cities, he argued, should work like machines. Organize housing, traffic, work, and recreation into clean systems, and the city…
The Human Signal
As AI does more of the talking, the things that are unmistakably human start to carry more weight, not less. You know them when you encounter them: The handwritten note. Showing up in person. The…