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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
A company’s pursuit of more wallet share will grow into responsibility for daily life. A Life Supplied follows the consequences for production, ownership, trust, work, and public power—and the permanent human account at the center of it all. … readA Life Supplied: The Bundled Economy and the Human at Its Center
A large minority of humanity works in measured employment while productive capacity changes enormously. The postwar record reveals why headcounts and 1,800-hour FTEs cannot explain prosperity without capital, knowledge, energy, institutions, and a way to distribute the gains. … readThe Half That Works
The Fire Goat comes back on February 6, 2027, for the first time since 1967. Here is the sixty-year machine behind it, all five kinds of goat, why this one is the lamp and not the sun, and what its afternoon heat says about the year ahead. … readThe Fire Goat Returns
Termites build cathedrals with no plan and no meeting, because the work itself tells the next worker what to do. AI is about to coordinate our work the same way, and the hard part will not be communication but decay: deciding which trails should fade. … readThe Trail Is the Message
A melting system holds its temperature while every bond inside it breaks. Joseph Black called the hidden energy latent, and it is the best description of this moment in AI: the flat chart is not proof that nothing is happening — it is what a melt reads like on a thermometer. … readLatent Heat
AI is about to make every screen, voice and inbox untrustworthy, and every product will be made by machines with nothing to lose. Trust is a loan of belief, and its collateral has always been your face. My advice to my students: be the face that your customers trust. … readBe the Face That Your Customers Trust
Galileo proved that nothing can grow much larger and keep its shape: weight outruns strength. AI just made one person the size of a department, and the people who thrive will be the ones who grow new bones. … readNo Giants Without New Bones
Personal AI capability becomes useful to other people when its private method can arrive as a clear, contestable handoff rather than a demand to trust or adopt the whole stack. … readThe Translation Layer | App to Stack
A personal AI stack can make work faster and more private, but it needs peers who can expose the questions its owner has stopped asking. … readThe Peer Layer | App to Stack