Essays and research on identity, work, and finding your way in a changing world.
21 July 2026 · Jobs · Future of Work · AI · Society · Self-Awareness
London's AI jobs report is right that work outcomes are not fixed. Still, most plans only consider the AI of a few months ago - and freelancing is not a plan for everyone.
17 July 2026 · Personality · Self-Awareness · what-world-way · Building in Public
Needed: feedback from psychologists and coaches. As a software engineer looking for answers, I kept coming back to one question - can we have a useful map of being human?
11 July 2026 · Building in Public · Self-Awareness · what-world-way
what-world-way is a free set of tests, run by a non-profit. With almost no money to advertise, it mostly spreads the ordinary way — someone takes it, finds it useful, and sends a friend a compare link. This is why.
10 June 2026 · Worldviews · Neuroscience · Education
Two thoughtful people rarely talk each other out of their worldviews. It isn't stubbornness — it's neuroscience. A founder's long-running hunch, and the research that backs more of it than expected.
8 June 2026 · Jobs · AI · Economics · Future of Work
One story says AI grows the economy and everyone reallocates. Another says mass redundancy is weeks away. Both are too tidy. What actually decides it, job by job — and who gets left holding nothing.
8 June 2026 · Self-Awareness · AI · Future of Work
Demis Hassabis says AGI arrives around 2030 — the start of "a new human era." But his most interesting line wasn't about the machines. It was about what stays valuable in us: taste, original thinking, and connection.
6 June 2026 · Economics · AI · Jobs · Society
"AI took the jobs" has become the default story of this decade. A new working paper argues it's the wrong story — and that we've made this exact mistake once before, in 1798.
4 June 2026 · Identity · AI · Future of Work
The headlines say the AI jobs apocalypse was oversold. They're right — and it changes nothing. Why the deepest disruption is still ahead, and what holds when your job title stops meaning anything.