The Week They Called In Sick
Every institution measures whether the work got done. Almost none measures who had to be there for it to.
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Can rights be used at work?
Essays on workplace systems where formal options exist but become costly, risky, or non-usable in practice. <a href="/patterns/survivability">Related synthesis path</a>. 4 matching essays.
How to Design for Cognitive Scarcity
Stop designing for the idealized “Hero User.” Build resilient interfaces that work when your user is stressed, tired, a…
The In-House Ethicist
Before an institution can do immense harm, it must first learn to feel good about itself. It must learn to translate it…
Existential Risk from AI is Ethnographic, Not Speculative
The most pressing dangers of AI are not confined to some future cataclysm; they are here now, embedded in the systems t…
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