Tag: jobs
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Americans don’t like AI
Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. Another 9% are more excited than concerned and 37% say they’re equally excited and concerned, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted June 22-28, 2026. 🔗 Young US…
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CEO Said a Thing: jobs apocalypse
It really, in both positive and negative ways, updated me to thinking that the jobs picture is likely to be very different than we thought. I don’t think we’re going to have the kind of jobs apocalypse that some of the companies in our space advocate or talk about.” Sam Altman From: ‘I’m delighted to…
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Mythos Firefox, the AI Job Fantasy, and Oregon Red Clover – Related to your interests, Saturday
Also: opinion shows for writers, no-update weeks, and the Spinoza heresies. From: The Brautigan Library Related to your interests Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish – Building a DIY AI stack is difficult. The “AI Job Apocalypse” Is a Complete Fantasy – “The macro story is not a jobless future, where we retire fat…
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The failures of ambition that keep the world running
“It’s also a part of a broader inversion of values. In America, we now treat the jobs that keep the world running like teachers, sanitation workers, nurses, delivery drivers as failures of ambition, while the real prestige lies in moving capital or manufacturing hype.” // Yowch. 🔗 How Bible Sales and Chipotle Explain the Economy
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If it’s bullshit work, have the bullshit artist do it.
There’s a lot of knowledge work that can be automated: ‘Where Altman’s comment holds water is in what it hints at, even if it doesn’t spell it out. Most jobs aren’t fake, but many have accumulated layers of automatable junk: compliance checklists, reports nobody reads, emails summarizing meetings that could’ve been Slack threads. That’s the…
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An enchanting annoyance
‘When we say, “I love my job,” we really mean, “My job pisses me off, but in an enchanting way.”’ Thank you for being annoying
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🗂 Link: Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation
Source: Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation
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Link: Women more at risk of job automation
In 2017, ONS found 1.5 million roles in England were at risk of having elements of their tasks automated, including roles such as retail cashiers, manufacturing plant employees and waiting staff, many of which are more likely to be filled by women. Source: Women more at risk of job automation
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Link: An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of
‘“The bidding process with Amazon shows why we need the federal government to help support cities and communities across America for 21st century jobs,” he said. “Right now, cities have been left to fend for themselves and are desperate to attract any tech jobs. If the federal government were to support fiber and broadband in…
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Link: Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle
‘High demand and low inventory creates bidding wars and animosity among those who can’t even afford a starter home in the city they grew up in,” Kurt Schlosser wrote in September for GeekWire. “And the rent is too damn high, too. Workers who don’t wear tech badges for a living are forced to look outside…
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Coders work from home more often than those in other jobs
In 2015, an estimated 300,000 full-time employees in computer science jobs worked from home in the US. (This figure also includes related professions such as actuaries and statisticians, but the vast majority are programmers.) Although not the largest group of remote employees in absolute numbers, that’s about 8% of all programmers, which is a significantly…
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Automation at Goldman, The Computer takes out four people
Today, nearly 45 percent of trading is done electronically, according to Coalition, a U.K. firm that tracks the industry. Pay: Average compensation for staff in sales, trading, and research at the 12 largest global investment banks, of which Goldman is one, is $500,000 in salary and bonus, according to Coalition. Seventy-five percent of Wall Street…
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It’s Not the Economy, Stupid
Rational anaysis is hard to find in real life: But in Elkhart, people have jobs they didn’t have six years ago, and they’re working more hours. Their homes are worth more than they were before Obama took office, on average, and their paychecks are fatter than they used to be. Yet Obama is, and will…
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Largile, living with nudists, containers, & jobs – Coté Memo #21
It’s turkey time! In the US at least. There’s a few pieces of my content below and some links. I’m hoping to just have two more trips this year, but we’ll see what Q4 demands have. I’ll be at the Gartner AS&S conference in December. Come on by the Pivotal booth to say hi if…
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Words matter. Thinking about how you talk about jobs if you want more women to apply. – disambiguity
Men apply for jobs when they meet 60% of the criteria, while women wait until they feel they meet 100% of the criteria. Words matter. Thinking about how you talk about jobs if you want more women to apply. – disambiguity
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