Behind the Curtain: A White-Collar Bloodbath, Sponsored by Disruption™
Satirical Business & Career Intelligence AI Didn’t Steal Your Job—Your CEO Did, With a Slightly More Efficient Spreadsheet By TheMORKTimes | May 29, 2025 In a revelation that surprised absolutely no one with an Outlook calendar and a soul slowly eroded by Slack notifications, AI pioneer Dario Amodei has issued a chilling warning: Artificial Intelligence is poised to eviscerate entry-level white-collar jobs...
Our Thoughts on Axios’s “AI white-collar bloodbath”
It begins, as these things often do, not with a bang but with a memo — one that quietly circulates among executives, policy wonks, and press inboxes, whispering the same unsettling thought: This time might be different. Not because we’ve built smarter machines — we’ve done that before. But because the machines now whisper back. They write emails, draft...
The Worker’s Dilemma in the Age of AI: What UNDP missed and got it right in their 2025 report
The 2025 Human Development Report from the UNDP, titled “A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI,” makes an urgent and timely appeal: that the rise of artificial intelligence must not leave people behind. Its human-centric framing is refreshing, reminding us that AI should be designed for people, not just profits. But when viewed from...
Beyond the Why: Building Learning Cultures in a World Without Certainty
In a world obsessed with frameworks, formulas, and foolproof plans, one ancient skeptic reminds us of a simple, uncomfortable truth: we’re all just making it up as we go. Long before “future-ready” became a LinkedIn headline, Agrippa the Skeptic warned that any attempt to justify knowledge would end in one of three dead ends — an infinite regress of...
The Economics of a Disrupted Workforce: When the Bet on Bots Backfires [Part1]
In 1589, William Lee invented the stocking frame knitting machine, only to have Queen Elizabeth I refuse a patent with the words: "Consider thou what the invention could do to my poor subjects who get their living by knitting?" Fast-forward 400 years, and we’re still doing the same dance—this time with AI instead of knitting frames. We now romanticize disruption...
The Fast Pill Fallacy: Why AI is the Unregulated Drug of Capitalism
The Snakebite, the Serum, and the Silicon Savior Yesterday, in a late evening call with a friend, we drifted from quarterly roadmaps to cancer drugs and AI. https://youtu.be/JgR0BZUPAAs They asked, half-jokingly: “What if the market asked us to take an experimental cancer drug immediately, before testing, just because our competitor already did?” It stopped me cold. Because that's exactly what's happening with AI. We're watching...
The River That Ate the Road: Why Organizations Must Learn to Flow Like Water
The villagers in the Himalayan foothills speak of rivers as if they are ancient, unpredictable gods. They give them names, personalities, and, above all, respect. Every monsoon, these rivers devour fields, shift courses, and obliterate roads. To an outsider, this might appear as random chaos. But to those who live by these rivers, the message is clear: only fools...
Qatar “Donates” $400 Million Jet to Trump: Legal Experts Improvise New Loopholes on Live TV
In a historic fusion of aviation and audacity, U.S. President Donald Trump has gleefully accepted a $400 million private jet from the Emir of Qatar, dismissing ethics concerns by declaring the aircraft a “mobile diplomatic billboard” and insisting the gift “technically belongs to the American airspace.” “Legally, it’s not a gift if I’m just borrowing it forever,” Trump clarified. “Qatar’s...
