The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
Work Sucks by Kassandra Vee - People don’t need any convincing to hate their jobs—their jobs do that for them
The Real Future of Work by Danny Vinik - Forget automation. The workplace is already cracking up in profound ways, and Washington is sorely behind on dealing with it.
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think by Arthur C. Brooks - Here’s how to make the most of it…
What Makes the Perfect Office? by Tim Harford - What if the ideal office isn’t the coolest or the most aesthetically visionary?
Why Big Companies Squander Good Ideas by Tim Harford - Organisations from newspapers to oil majors to computing giants have persistently struggled to embrace new technological opportunities, or recognise new technological threats, even when the threats are mortal or the opportunities are golden…
A World Without Work by Derek Thompson - For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would make workers obsolete. That moment may finally be arriving. Could that be a good thing?
Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us? by Kevin Drum - Smart machines probably won’t kill us all—but they’ll definitely take our jobs, and sooner than you think
Your Fabulous Job Sucks by Clive Thompson - The studied hipness of new media is a fascinating and rather devious cultural illusion…
They’re Watching You at Work by Don Peck - What happens when Big Data meets human resources? The emerging practice of “people analytics” is already transforming how employers hire, fire, and promote
Phoning It In by Stanley Bing - She gave me this long and involved story about a huge slight that was inflicted on her operation by some other entity someplace, and I was looking out the window and thinking, whoa, look at that BMW Z8
