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Figure 1 shows a steady decline in interstate migration rates between 1996 and 2024 across all age groups. The figure also shows that moving rates are consistently higher for younger adults (25-34) than for older age groups and that mobility has declined within every age group. Thus, the overall decline in the mobility rate (age 25+) is due to a combination of population aging and mobility falling within every age group.

IDC predicts that by 2027, half of all AI-enabled enterprise applications will require new oversight positions dedicated to governance, risk, and accountability. Predictions are mostly (only) valuable to see what someone is thinking and hoping to be true - their in-head-vibes. Here, you can see what one of the IT thought-leaders will be thought-leadering in CY2026z 🔗 The Future of Work: AI Agents as Instruments

”Organizational interest comes in waves. When it’s reliability time, VPs are desperate to be doing something. They want to come up with plausible-sounding reliability projects that they can fund, because they need to go to their bosses and point at what they’re doing for reliability, but they don’t have the skillset to do it on their own.” So if you want to get something technical done in a tech company, you ought to wait for the appropriate wave.

Tiny CLI scripts for tiny tasks. // I love this kind of thing. 🔗 My Secret Recipe for Personal Scripts

“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