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Stack People will need voluntary professional bodies that make shared standards, protection, and bargaining power portable without claiming ownership of anyone’s private AI capability. … readThe Stack Guild | App to Stack
A personal AI stack should give people a private place to rehearse real methods before they are judged by a customer, employer, school, or institution. … readThe Rehearsal Ground | App to Stack
Hannah Arendt split the word work into three kinds of doing: labor, work and action. This book argues that AI delegates take the first two, and that the third, beginning something among equals, is the one that cannot be sent. … readThe Third Thing: Arendt, Labor, Work, and the Doing No Delegate Can Begin
The next generation of work needs more than entry-level tasks; it needs clear, escalating permission to observe, prepare, recommend, and finally own a consequential decision. … readThe Permission Ladder | App to Stack
A game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles, which makes play the one thing you cannot hand to an AI delegate. This book asks what is left to do when the necessary obstacles thin out, and finds the answer on a putting green. … readUnnecessary Obstacles: Play, the Grasshopper, and the One Thing You Cannot Delegate
A capacity receipt gives a Stack Person a living, inspectable account of what they can reliably direct, what conditions it depends on, and what remains theirs to learn. … readThe Capacity Receipt | App to Stack
A masterpiece was once the exam piece that made a craftsman a master, and the small work beneath it was the only school most trades ever had. This book asks who will make the masters now that AI clears that work by morning. … readMasterpiece: The Guilds, the Apprentice, and Who Makes the Masters When the Small Work Is Gone
In 1845 Bastiat’s candlemakers petitioned France to shut out the sun. AI just made thinking as cheap as daylight, and this book shows how to tell a rule that protects the public from a rule that protects the past. … readAgainst the Sun: Bastiat, the Candlemakers, and the Politics of Free Intelligence
In 1956 Ross Ashby proved that a controller can only handle as many situations as it has responses. Every institution has been quietly shrinking the world to fit its menu; AI is the first thing that can grow the menu to fit the world. … readOnly Variety Absorbs Variety
Technology can expand an economy while reducing its need for human labor. John Rector follows Ford’s consumer revolution into a future of persistent earning, crowded markets, and pressure on compensation—and asks what abundance should buy us next. … readThe Habit of Earning