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…
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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…