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Work X.0

A long-form exploration of how AI, technological inflection points, and civilisational shifts are rewriting the meaning of work, careers, leadership, and organisations.

The Human Question: Meaning, Dignity, and Identity in a Post-AI World

21-May-2026

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The debate surrounding artificial intelligence and the future of work is still largely framed as an economic conversation. Policymakers focus on labour displacement and productivity growth, companies ...

Leadership of the Future: Leading When You Don't Have Answers

08-May-2026

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For most of modern corporate history, leadership rested on a relatively stable bargain: leaders were expected to know more than everyone else. Information moved slowly, expertise compounded predictabl...

Organisation of the Future: Why Org Charts are Becoming a Liability?

29-Apr-2026

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The modern corporation is optimised for a world that no longer exists. For much of the 20th century, as we've been discussing at length in Work X.0 , the problem firms had to solve was efficiency at s...

The New Skill Stack: Why Learning Speed Beats Expertise?

21-Apr-2026

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As we've been exploring in Work X.0 , for most of the industrial age, expertise behaved like a marquee property. It was accumulated patiently, defended proudly and monetised predictably. A law degree,...

AI as Cognitive Leverage: Are We Outsourcing Thinking at Scale?

01-Apr-2026

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For the first time in history, we’re not just outsourcing labour. We’re outsourcing thinking itself. And the question isn’t whether AI is powerful. It’s whether we’re using it to think better or to av...

The Great Unbundling: When Jobs Break into Tasks in the AI Era

27-Mar-2026

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In today’s rapidly evolving future of work, the traditional job is no longer the primary unit of value. Increasingly, we are seeing the unbundling of work, where jobs are breaking into tasks, workflow...

From Career X.0 to Work X.0: Why Careers Broke Before Work Did

19-Mar-2026

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As we explore in Work X.0 , the idea of a career rested on a simple premise: that progress would be linear, predictable, and largely controllable. One would choose a field, enter at the bottom, accumu...

Inflection Points: How Inventions Compressed Years of Work

11-Mar-2026

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As we explored in part 1 of Work X.0, work persists not merely because of economic necessity, but because it fulfils deeper psychological and social functions. Even as technology has dramatically incr...

Why Humans Work: The Civilisational Constant Behind Every Job

03-Mar-2026

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In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the end of the century, technological progress would reduce the workweek to roughly 15 hours. Productivity would soar. Material needs would be met. Leisu...