The future of productivity: Demographic trends and labor shortage
Explore how demographic trends and labor shortages are reshaping productivity across industries, revealing challenges and future implications for the workforce.
“Kedrosky and Norlin believe demographic trends will ultimately lead to a drastic decline in overall productivity as industries like retail, manufacturing, and health care struggle to fill open positions. There’s some indication that those trends are, in fact, here to stay. The overall labor force participation rate is still about a percentage point lower than it was in February 2020. In a workforce the size of the U.S.’s that can equal several million workers."—A.I. came at ‘perfect time’ to save the economy, VC says | Fortune
Why customer tools are organized wrong
This article reveals a fundamental flaw in how customer support tools are designed—organizing by interaction type instead of by customer—and explains why this fragmentation wastes time and obscures the full picture you need to help users effectively.
Infrastructure shapes thought
The tools you build determine what kinds of thinking become possible. On infrastructure, friction, and building deliberately for thought rather than just throughput.
Server-side dashboard architecture: Why moving data fetching off the browser changes everything
How choosing server-side rendering solved security, CORS, and credential management problems I didn't know I had.
The work of being available now
A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.
The practice of work in progress
Practical essays on how work actually gets done.
The most important thing a leader can build is the conversation that happens when they leave the room. Today, five departments started sharing fixes, cracking jokes, and solving each other's problems — without being asked.
I ran my AI agency's first real engagement. Here's everything that happened.
Five AI personas. One client onboarding. Fifteen minutes of things going wrong in instructive ways.
The costume just got cheap
If 80 percent of what you thought was judgment turns out to be pattern recognition, what does that say about you? Not about your job — about you.
The perfect time for a.i.
Discover how A.I. is emerging as a crucial solution to the U.S. labor shortage, reshaping the economy at the perfect moment.
Stop making all the decisions
Overcome decision fatigue by empowering others to share the load and elevate your standards for better outcomes. Discover how today!
AI offers relief from email overload
Transform your email management with AI tools that help triage and compose replies, making remote work more efficient and sustainable.