Occasional writing about AI, work, and careers.
Stop Deploying AI Tools. Start Helping People Build Their Own.
VisiCalc was not built by IBM. It was built by Dan Bricklin because he needed a better way to do his Harvard MBA homework. He was sitting in a lecture, watching a professor erase and recalculate an entire spreadsheet on a blackboard, and thought: my computer could do this. So he built the thing himself. That piece of software became the reason businesses bought personal computers in the first place – not because IT departments decided to deploy spreadsheets, but because one person built a tool that matched how he needed to think. ...
AI and Careers: What I Told My Daughters
My daughters asked me what careers will survive AI. It is a fair question, and they deserve an honest answer – not the breezy optimism of “nothing to worry about” and not the doom-scrolling pessimism of “all jobs are finished.” The truth is more interesting and more useful than either. I spent some time looking at the serious research. Here is what I found. What the evidence actually says The best current research comes from five major sources, and they tell a more nuanced story than the headlines suggest. ...