Titles are low friction, and they give people a place to put you. They answer three questions at once: what you do, who you work for, and roughly where you sit in the pecking order….
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The Potemkin Village Problem in Hiring
In 1787, Grigory Potemkin erected phony portable settlements along the banks of the Dnieper River to impress the Russian Empress Catherine the Great and her foreign guests as she toured the lands he governed. The…
What AI Made Humanity Finally Ask
From “The Infrastructure Century: How Ten Systems Shaped Human Civilization” — Oxford Press, 2051 — “Water systems allowed humans to stop following rivers and start building cities. Roads turned isolated settlements into economies. Electricity extended…