Not so long ago, jobs came with a bundle of economic advantages beyond a paycheck. Those advantages included health insurance for you and your family and a pension or post-retirement paycheck based on your years with your employer and how much you’d … [Continue reading]
This week I've re-worked a post from last August in the first of a two-part consideration on the future of work. Today, it's envisioning a workforce where more of us will be working for ourselves, selling increments of our time and talent in what … [Continue reading]
Good work always has a long-term goal. I’m thinking this week about long-term goals of mine, like acting to confront climate change and the assaults on knowledge by misinformation. Both goals are intertwined and both seem difficult if not impossible … [Continue reading]
Conversations that change minds always appeal to people’s priorities.These are conversations we've had here about subjects like the risks of climate change (“An Enabling Perspective for Our Wounded World”), the current imbalances in the American … [Continue reading]
A growing part of the American economy—the part that’s harvesting and utilizing our personal data to drive what we consume—no longer depends on “the basic reciprocities” that once supported our social contract. In other segments of our economy, … [Continue reading]
