Pace Layers of Work In 2023, I transposed Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers into the business context. Now, included in *How To Use Time*. www.workfutures.io/p/layers-of-...

No great loss. They lost Paul Krugman but retained Summers? Lol.

'Knowledge workers and service workers find themselves increasingly aligned…because the division between those making 5 figures and those making 6 matters less than the division between those who have significant bundles of investment capital and those who don’t.' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Aaron Zamost | 'When tech is the villain instead of the hero, the future feels leaderless.' Tech leaders have turned their backs on the people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Ryan Enos | 'The Democratic Party is primed for a hostile takeover.' ryandenos.substack.com/p/mamdani-an...

Hard to see @schumer.senate.gov being able to stay in leadership after this or in the senate, he was not the man for this moment

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

Beyond Work | Stowe Boyd Corey Robin | Dani Rodrik on Good Jobs | Factoids There is no way to make life easier beyond work than to make it better at work. The two are linked. | Corey Robin www.workfutures.io/p/beyond-work

Michelle Goldberg | 'There are more than 50 House Democrats who are 70 or older (including Pelosi, who is 85), compared to just over 30 Republicans.' Unwinding the Dem gerontocracy, starting with Pelosi. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

All Are Responsible | Stowe Boyd Abraham Joshua Heschel | Art, Sport, or Extinct | Factoids In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty; all are responsible. | Abraham Joshua Heschel www.workfutures.io/p/all-are-re...

They Should Not Pay | Stowe Boyd Claudia Sahm | Low Quality Jobs | Sad Desk Lunch | Stop Hiring Humans Workers did not cause inflation, and they should not pay for bringing it down. | Claudia Sahm www.workfutures.io/p/they-shoul...

Goldmacher, Zhang | 'Every single one of New Jersey’s 29 townships with a majority Hispanic population swung in Mr. Trump’s direction between 2020 and 2024 — by an average of 25 percentage points.' Yikes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

Michelle Goldberg | 'Platner has very little in common with 2015-era Trump, except this: His movement represents a voter insurgency that those atop his party seem unable to address or even fully grasp.' Challenging the status quo, unseating the elites. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Tik Root | 'First Street Foundation estimates that 11.1 million Americans are expected to move due to strained water resources by 2055.' Drought is set to pose a greater risk to the $4 trillion municipal bond market than floods, hurricanes, and wildfires combined. grist.org/cities/droug...

The Enclosure Of Work Today’s corporate gentry seeks to enclose work itself, to displace all employees, and to clear the offices and factories, except for robots and AI, and a handful of owners and engineers to keep the machinery going. www.workfutures.io/i/176929227/...

In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.

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Jamelle Bouie | 'There is no election that could give any president the power to deprive us of our right to govern ourselves.' No Kings. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

Kinzinger & Sykes: Trumpian Symbolism in Overdrive open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

The value of the answer is hidden in the question.

"Seeking out lesser-known voices isn’t just an act of cultural curation; it’s a philosophical stance, a refusal to let attention be the only metric that matters. Because the most interesting stuff usually happens on the margins" #kaibrach www.densediscovery.com/issues/320

You’re Already Behind Umberto Eco | The Making Of Lists | Factoids Lists — whether jotted on paper, managed in an app, or even held only in memory — are a form of complaining. | Stowe Boyd www.workfutures.io/p/youre-alre...

Just a reminder that Republicans own this shutdown

Nothing So Useless Peter Drucker | The Paradox of Authenticity | Job Insecurity | Elsewhere There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. | Peter Drucker www.workfutures.io/p/nothing-so...

Getting Unstuck | Stowe Boyd What can we learn from creatives about the inevitable potholes and pitfalls that can block our creativity? ... Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. | Anne Lamott workfutures.io/p/getting-un...

The Law Binds But Does Not Protect The Inherent Conservatism Of Business | Factoids Conservatism = 'There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.' | Frank Wilhoit www.workfutures.io/p/the-law-bi...

Sources: www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo... www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/15/c... www.govsforhealth.org

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Only 5000?

Saying it out loud: Brexit was a catastrophic mistake.

U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history 🚨🚨

I dropped them a year ago. Hilarious.

Constant Méheut | 'Russia has managed to seize less than 1 percent of Ukraine’s territory.' Russian military casualties are ~300,000. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

Struggle for the Future Walter Benjamin | The Writing Life | Factoids There can be no struggle for the future without a memory of the past. | Walter Benjamin www.workfutures.io/p/struggle-f...

Pritzker also says ICE's treatment of peaceful protesters has gotten so bad that Illinois law enforcement has to protect them *from* ICE. "We’ve got Illinois State Police standing in between ICE and the protesters," he says. This is the America Miller wants. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Pete Hegseth practices day drinking the right way. by Ezra Klein

Glickman, Felton | 'Subprime auto lender Tricolor filed for bankruptcy last month. […] The portion of subprime auto loans that are 60 days or more overdue on their payments hit a record of more than 6%.' That's a warning sign of recession. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Constructive Uncertainty The world is complex, and we must find a balance between taking action and accepting uncertainty. Our natural impulse toward quick decisions misses out on a powerful tool: negative planning. www.workfutures.io/p/constructi...

For and To Cui Bono? | AI Shell Game | Factoids Luddism and science fiction concern themselves with the same questions: not merely what the technology does, but who it does it for and who it does it to. | Cory Doctorow www.workfutures.io/p/for-and-to

WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THOSE PEOPLE I PARDONED, ACCUSE THEM OF BEING ANTIFA, AND PUTTHEM BACK IN JAIL

Jennifer Steinhauer | [Younger Americans] 'are united not by one political platform but by establishment politicians’ inability to relate to younger Americans.' See: Mamdani. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Theda Skocpol | 'Trump himself, many in Congress and many in their voter followings live in a virtual world where cities are aflame and “leftists” are demons.' Hallucinations. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Jennifer Steinhauer | 'It’s easy for people to dislike the cultural references that elude them.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

swiss coops go so hard. this is in suburbs of basel. building is <45' deep. 22 homes: (8) x 2-BR, (10) x 3-BR, (4) x 4-BR a third of residents are kids. 40% of households are young families. 20% are retirees. it's a passivhaus. a *ton* of community spaces. www.hagnauer-gaerten.ch/wohnungsange...

The Superior Of Capital Yet Another American Experiment | Factoids Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. | Abraham Lincoln www.workfutures.io/p/the-superi...

Jordyn Holman | '[CEO] turnover is high in the consumer sector: It accounted for 1/4 of all chief executive turnover. The average tenure for a chief executive in consumer businesses was 5.9 years, down slightly from last year.' archive.is/ZmYnG

Francesca Paris, Eve Washington | '40 percent of U.S. counties still don’t have a fast charger, according to federal data, the vast majority of them small and without a major interstate crossing through.' www.nytimes.com/interactive/...