Freight vs. Mopeds: Rethinking Delivering Growth to #FutureOfWork
The Freight Mindset: Standardized, Scalable, but Sometimes Stifling When organizations look at growing their people, their first instinct is often to build big. After all, freight is reassuring: large programs, mass certifications, centralized onboarding, mandatory compliance training. Everyone is moving in the same direction, at the same pace, toward clear, measurable outcomes. Freight works brilliantly when the terrain is known and...
The Future of Work: Lessons from an AI Company That Wasn’t
In the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci designed mechanical knights that could sit, wave, and even move their jaws. Observers wondered: if machines could mimic life, how far off could a world of mechanical workers really be? Fast-forward five centuries, and we’re still asking. But thanks to a fascinating experiment at Carnegie Mellon University, we now have a clearer — and...
Beyond the Headlines: How Adaptability Metrics Can Rethink Education Policy
This week, a sweeping executive order signed by President Donald Trump set off renewed debates over the future of U.S. higher education. The order targets a range of long-standing practices — from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to university accreditation and foreign funding disclosures — while simultaneously laying out new plans to invest in artificial intelligence education and...
The Edge of Understanding: What Agentic AI Can Teach Us About the Future of Work
It starts, as most revolutions do, with a whisper. In the quiet corners of forests, under the hum of server farms, and now in the digital corridors of our workplaces, a transformation is taking shape. Much like the leafcutter ants of the Amazon rainforest—who cultivate food not for themselves alone but for the collective good—we are beginning to see a...
The Future of Jobs: Learning from Where AGI Is Stalling
In nature, there’s a concept known as “edge habitats”—places where two ecosystems meet, like the forest brushing up against the grassland. It’s at these edges where life thrives most creatively. Unique species evolve. Unlikely alliances form. Complexity finds its dance partner. Ironically, in our pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), we are standing at such an edge. Only this time,...
The Edge of AGI: Why Slow Thinking Still Belongs to Humans
In the world of bees, the waggle dance is an elegant system of communication. A worker bee finds nectar and returns to the hive to dance—literally—drawing figure-eights in the dark, humid air of the colony. The angle and duration of her dance encode direction and distance. But here’s the thing: she doesn’t send tokens. She doesn’t generate statistically likely...
What the Blue Origin Flight Can Teach the Modern Worker—Beyond the Stratosphere
In nature, bees don’t fly solo missions to collect pollen because it looks good on Instagram. Every journey serves the hive. It’s purpose-bound, efficient, and generative. In contrast, Blue Origin’s all-women space jaunt—launched with fanfare but critiqued for being more flair than function—offers a cautionary tale for workers seeking meaning in a world increasingly designed for metrics over mission. So,...
The Robotic Revolution: Reshaping the Future of Dairy Farming in the Workplace
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