9 Best Articles in 2020
Guardian Tech
The meaning of life in a world without work
Guardian Tech
20+ min read · 734 saves · From 2017 · As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose
WIRED
The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
WIRED
4 min read · 630 saves · From 2017 · What if we regarded code not as a high-stakes, sexy affair, but the equivalent of skilled work at a Chrysler plant?
Guardian Books
The end of capitalism has begun
Guardian Books
~19 min read · 595 saves · From 2016 · Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian
The Guardian
Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
The Guardian
~20 min read · 498 saves · From 2018 · Work means different things to different people: an economic necessity, a source of self-fulfillment, a status symbol?or all of the above. Yet up until recently, few Westerners have questioned the value or necessity of work itself. This is now changing, as Andy Beckett explains in his article for?The Guardian. He gives voice to a growing number of intellectuals and political activists who think that our work-centric society is becoming obsolete. In outlining some main lines of thinking within the emerging post-work movement, Beckett provides much food for thought for anybody interested in the future of work.
BuzzFeed News
Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever
BuzzFeed News
1 min read · 474 saves · May 12th · Two months into working from home, Twitter makes it permanent for some.
CNBC
Harvard lecturer: 'No specific skill will get you ahead in the future'—but this 'type of thinking' will
CNBC
3 min read · 470 saves · Jun 15th · To make it in today's world of rapid changes and uncertainties, successful business leaders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk prove it's better to be a generalist, rather than a specialist.
medium.com
Mapping “The Future of Work” Startup & Investor ecosystem
medium.com
~17 min read · 466 saves · Apr 15th · Pietro Invernizzi · Like lots of people these days, I enjoy spending time thinking about & investing in companies shaping “the Future of Work”.
The Verge
Quartz
How to prepare for a future in which creativity is a workforce survival skill
Quartz
3 min read · 431 saves · Nov 9th · Scott Belsky · We need to apply new thinking to education, retraining, and workplace tools if we want to maximize creativity.
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