complex problem problem-solving approach embracing uncertainty, from Saras Sarasvathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saras_Sarasvathy (more)

Joe Procopio: The Dirty Secret About Productivity and AI. There’s a nasty surprise waiting for business leaders at “peak productivity” (more)

Joe Procopio: These Are the Jobs AI Will Replace. Question: Do you have a job that could be replaced by AI? OK, that was a trick question. Everyone’s job could be replaced by AI. That’s how they frightened CEOs into buying it. (more)

Joe Procopio: I’ve Had 100 Startup Meetings About How No One Can Find a Job. I just wrapped up my 100th meeting with people from startups and established companies alike, all of whom are trying to solve a massive problem: That no one seems to be able to find a job. (job market) (more)

Joe Procopio: “Big HR” Gets Hit With Big Job Cuts. Workday announces its own mass layoffs, so what does that mean for the tech industry? (more)

Joe Procopio: How’s Hiring Going? Because LinkedIn Made $2 Billion On Subscriptions Last Year. LinkedIn’s social network might be hurting your hiring whether you use them or not.* (more)

Joe Procopio: Hiring Is the Billion Dollar Problem To Solve in 2025. AI is sucking the oxygen out of the room, but another huge opportunity is starting to become clear (more)

I'm reading Marcus Buckingham's The Truth About You ISBN:9781400202263 book plus DVD (Book List). I got it for free in return for writing about it. (more)

US National-id efforts (more)

Peter Kaminski has a site/newsletter to walk people through 20 days of getting started with GenAI. (more)

Dan Davies: abundance on the cheap. Don’t worry, readers, this is not going to become an Abundanceism blog (more)

Mike Konczal: The Abundance Doctrine. Something has changed. Whether it is transit and infrastructure projects that seem to take forever or new laws that take years to go into effect, the government now moves much more sluggishly than in decades past. Two new books argue that these aren’t just isolated problems but instead reflections of a broader ideological dysfunction within left-liberal and Democratic coalitions. (more)

Dan Davies: cybernetic abundance and its limits. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book “Abundance” has been described as “not so much a book as a Discourse-generating machine”, and you know how much I love one of those (more)

Dan Davies: the most ambitious crossover. I’ve been trailing this for a while, but my Niskanen Center White Paper is nearly out, and the summary essay for it has now been published along with a load of others, in a collection called “The Law Of Abundance”. That title is meant to be a contrast to “The Law of Constraint”, in its sense meaning the way that administrative law is currently set up to stop the government from doing things. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Terms of Centaur Service. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve gotten into a groove with AI-assisted (GenAI) writing, as you may have noticed, and I am really enjoying it. You’ve seen the results — a 3x increase in posting frequency (more)

Can the Startup Mindset Fix America? The defining document of the internet is not a hacker’s manifesto or some cyberpunk screed espousing the virtues of anarchy. Instead, it is a permission slip, dotted and signed by the U.S. federal government, entitled Section 230. This portion of the Communication Decency Act, which was enacted in 1996, allowed websites to publish users’ content while not being held legally liable for what those users posted. (more)

Matt Breuenig: The Abundance Agenda. I spent the last few days digesting Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson and then reading twelve recent pieces commenting on the book, with the goal of getting a handle on this particular area of discourse and trying to determine what exactly to make of it all. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: The Poverty of Abundance. A rhetorical letter in response to the question: “Is this book worth reading based on what you know about me? (more)

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co-founder/CEO of Shopify https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_L%C3%BCtke