9 Best Articles in 2021
Guardian Tech
The meaning of life in a world without work
Guardian Tech
20+ min read · From 2017 · As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose
WIRED
The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
WIRED
4 min read · From 2017 · What if we regarded code not as a high-stakes, sexy affair, but the equivalent of skilled work at a Chrysler plant?
Guardian Books
The end of capitalism has begun
Guardian Books
~20 min read · From 2016 · Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian
sahillavingia.com
No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
sahillavingia.com
8 min read · Jan 7th · How we work at Gumroad
The Guardian
Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
The Guardian
20+ min read · From 2018 · Work means different things to different people: an economic necessity, a source of self-fulfillment, a status symbol or all of the above. Yet up until recently, few Westerners have questioned the value or necessity of work itself. This is now changing, as Andy Beckett explains in his article for The Guardian. He gives voice to a growing number of intellectuals and political activists who think that our work-centric society is becoming obsolete. In outlining some main lines of thinking within the emerging post-work movement, Beckett provides much food for thought for anybody interested in the future of work.
CNBC
Harvard lecturer: 'No specific skill will get you ahead in the future'—but this 'type of thinking' will
CNBC
4 min read · 2020-06-15 · To make it in today's world of rapid changes and uncertainties, successful business leaders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk prove it's better to be a generalist, rather than a specialist.
BuzzFeed News
Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever
BuzzFeed News
1 min read · 2020-05-12 · Two months into working from home, Twitter makes it permanent for some.
medium.com
Mapping “The Future of Work” Startup & Investor ecosystem
medium.com
~18 min read · 2020-04-15 · Like lots of people these days, I enjoy spending time thinking about & investing in companies shaping “the Future of Work”.
Quartz
How to prepare for a future in which creativity is a workforce survival skill
Quartz
3 min read · 2020-11-09 · We need to apply new thinking to education, retraining, and workplace tools if we want to maximize creativity.
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Harvard Business Review
What Does It Mean to Be a Manager Today?
Harvard Business Review
6 min read · Apr 15th · Managers need a new set of skills to succeed in a world of remote work, automation, and shifting employee expectations.
Curbed
Remember the Office?
Curbed
5 min read · Apr 26th · A look back at 150 years of cubicles, corner offices, all-nighters, and the holiday party.
TIME
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Talks The Powers Of Automation
TIME
6 min read · Apr 18th · The head of the world's most valuable semiconductor company discusses the power of automation.
Fast Company
These architects popularized the open office. Now they say ‘the open office is dead’
Fast Company
4 min read · Apr 19th · Clive Wilkinson Architects championed open offices for big companies such as Google and Microsoft. Now, as the pandemic has led to a massive overhaul of work life, they envision something completely…
Fast Company
The office of the future is outdoors
Fast Company
4 min read · Apr 26th · Landlords and designers are adding more outdoor space to office buildings, so employees can actually work outside.
MIT Technology Review
The future of work is uniquely human
MIT Technology Review
4 min read · Apr 6th · The disruptive shifts of 2020, including covid-19 shutdowns that led to millions of workers working remotely, forced organizations to radically rethink everything from worker well-being, business…
Guardian US
Los Angeles could become largest US city to trial universal basic income
Guardian US
3 min read · Apr 21st · $1,000-a-month per family pilot program in new budget, following similar schemes in Stockton, Oakland and San Francisco
Fast Company
This is how IBM and Slack are approaching hybrid work
Fast Company
5 min read · Apr 14th · The future of work for many companies isn’t in-office or remote, it’s a combination of both. Here are some questions we are asking to figure out how to make hybrid work successful.
New Statesman
CEOs are hugely expensive
New Statesman
4 min read · Apr 26th · Over the next two weeks, the boards of BAE Systems, AstraZeneca, Glencore, Flutter Entertainment and the London Stock Exchange all face the possibility of shareholder revolts over executive pay at…
The Economist
The EU wants to become the world’s super-regulator in AI
The Economist
3 min read · Apr 23rd · And there’s a precedent | Europe
