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The Human Edge
Research-backed writing and conversation on work, judgment and AI. We ask what stays human, what leaders still own when the tool does the work, and how work is changing in the institutions we serve. Every claim is sourced.
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- “What do you do?” is now the most dangerous question in AmericaThe grammar of work is breaking. For two centuries the question “what do you do?” had a stable answer, a job title that told a stranger roughly what you spent your days on and what you were worth. Automation of execution is loosening that link, and the loosening is arriving faster than our language for it.
- The World in the SelfWe are all commanded, by the spirit of our age, to be authentic. But what if the inward turn that authenticity demands has led us away from the world we were supposed to appear in?
- The Hollowed CrownPublic life used to be organized around things: a town square, a printed paper, a factory floor, a shared object people could point to and argue about. What happens to public life in a world without things?
- The View from the Lake: Romano Guardini’s Warning for a Technological AgeIn the 1920s, from a house on Lake Como, the theologian Romano Guardini watched the old world of craft and place give way to the world of machines, and wrote a set of letters that read as if they were addressed to us.
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