https://conten.to/tags/work/ Recent content in Work on conten.to Hugo en-us Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/29/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/29/ The public conversation about AI and work is stuck on the wrong question. The real mechanism isn't the robot replacing a person; it's that one person can now do the work of five, so companies stop hiring instead of laying off. The crisis is not 'a world without jobs.' It's a world with plenty of work to do, and not enough jobs to go around to do it. https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/28/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/28/ AI slop is the moral panic of the moment, and a lot of it is genuinely bad. But if you squint at a lot of professional work — boilerplate, memos, quarterly reports, status updates — much of what we make on a normal Tuesday already qualifies. A four-movement essay on whether AI introduced slop or just made the slop we always made cheap enough to see. https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/24/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/24/ Steve McCroskey in Airplane! (1980) was a joke. Then Silicon Valley made him a role model. A short essay on the 10x engineer myth, context-switching as culture, and why productivity-as-virtue is quietly the opposite direction from every contemplative tradition worth the name.