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A collection of 10 issues

AI Breaks It, AI Buys It

Four Ways to Make Technology Pay for Job Displacement In my last post (From Dust Bowl to Digital Displacement) I raised the specter of AI creating massive job loss. So, how do we pay for job retraining or even the hallelujah state promised by AI CEOs of finding our bliss

From Dust Bowl to Digital Displacement: Will We Need Another New Deal?

Reader and Godspeed supporter Emma Mattson engaged me recently in a conversation about purpose at work, pointing me to an old episode of The Ezra Klein Show. (The Case Against Loving Your Job, aired in 2021, worth the listen, and deeply influencing Emma’s view on the subject.) I listened,

Radical Abundance

This is the second in a three-part series focusing on the radical ideas that are surfacing among us: radical transparency, radical abundance, and radical reporting. Abundance is having a moment – from the current chart-topping bestseller by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Abundance, which I haven’t yet read) to a

13 Ways of Looking at AI

A poetic musing today – it’s National Poetry Month after all, which I’ve foreshadowed aplenty in recent issues – though to hold the line a bit today’s writing does have overlap with business and technology. I first encountered the poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird in college,

Illustrating Pentagram's AI (Mid)Journey

Pentagram, the world's largest independent design agency, recently showcased its work in creating performance.gov on behalf of the U.S. Federal Government. The work was led by design icon Paula Scher. More noteworthy than Scher's involvement was her team's use of an AI

We Have Met the Enemy

Every once in awhile, a piece of writing stands out in a way that makes you stop, if for a moment, to marvel at the construction of its language and think how the author just did what they did to you; for me, this usually occurs in the pages of

All AI, All the Time

All AI, all the time - or at least this week here at Godspeed as this issue and Thursday's are heavily influenced by my A.I. hallucinations. Well, sort of. Today, Andrew Kassoy lays out a plan in a New York Times Op-Ed for how OpenAI can successfully

In Sky We Trust

When you look up, what do you see? Stars? Blue skies? Jet contrails? Or dollar signs? This week I was struggling to write about climate change being the ultimate tragedy of the commons. Perhaps when my gears stop grinding that subject will make an appearance here in the future. That

Friends with Benefits

Happy Tuesday and welcome back from the long holiday. How’d that feel? Those who’ve been hanging with this newsletter know I’ve been looking into and philosophizing about artificial intelligence (AI), especially in regards the future of work. This past week I learned about a startup in the