Editorial Series
The Near Future of Work
A four-part argument about why the job market feels broken, why AI is exposing old lies, and why work may shift from salaries to bounties.
Part 01 / Labor Market / 9 min read
AI Did Not Break the Job Market. It Exposed It.
The pain people feel in the labor market is not just the story of AI taking jobs. It is what happens when overhiring, rate shock, SaaS bloat, new grad pressure, and executive convenience all arrive at the same time.
You are not crazy. The labor market feels weird because it is weird.
Part 02 / Work Culture / 11 min read
The White-Collar Theater Economy Is Running Out of Road.
A lot of modern white-collar work was built around process, coordination, SaaS rituals, and status performance. AI did not need to be perfect to threaten it. It only needed to be better than low-signal process.
Once work becomes measurable by output instead of meetings, a lot of job descriptions start looking like costumes.
Part 03 / Software Markets / 10 min read
AI Agents Are Coming for SaaS Before They Come for You.
The first visible collapse may not be individual jobs. It may be the software and marketing economy those jobs depend on.
The agent does not care about your brand campaign. It cares whether the thing works, how much it costs, and whether it beats the alternative.
Part 04 / Future Of Work / 12 min read
The Future of Work Is Bounties.
The old employment contract was salary for time, role, and process. The new contract increasingly becomes reward for provable outcomes.
Your means will matter less. Your result will matter more. Time spent only matters if it makes you slow.