Sarah M. Chappell

Some business actions should not be replaced. They are human work, and they need a human to do them.

It’s only when information is put into conversation, when it does draw on our memory, when it activate aliveness and be rematerialized again.

You can read an article or listen to a podcast without a desired outcome. But for research, we are processing with a goal: to secure information and develop new ideas towards some future production.

Why does Substack, after raising $65 million in venture capital in 2021, need your pocket change?

Productivity trends have moved towards a kind of anti-capture stance, saying that the tendency to over-save is getting in the way and creating noise. This is your chance to make your own feed using the original algorithm: your mind.

Research can become an obsessive errand, a way to hedge against potential criticisms. How can you know when you’ve done enough?

We’re seeing is a critical market correction, one that finally admits what teachers have long known: technology does not replace people.

In order for knowledge work to survive—and with it any hint of respect for the necessity of thought in the development of a better world—we must make work that can’t be done solely by a machine.

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