A long-form publication on AI and the work people are actually being asked to do — and the work they are no longer being asked to do.
The conversation about AI and work is being held at the wrong altitude.
Either it is another product launch, or another doom thread. Almost nothing in between takes the people doing the work seriously, on their own terms, at the granularity their week actually has.
The Augmented Work is a publication about that middle. We do not believe AI will end careers, and we do not believe it will leave them untouched. The question worth a reader's time is more specific: which parts of which jobs, on which timelines, and what the person doing them should do with the answer.
Everything here is built so that question stays in the foreground. The chrome is quiet. The schedule is slow. The reporting beats the prediction. The reader is presumed to be literate and short on time.
What we believe, in order.
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The interesting question is granular.
"Will AI replace knowledge work" is a category error. The question we take seriously is which parts of which jobs, on which timelines, and what the people doing them should do with the answer.
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The reader has been told too much.
Our readers are not new to this conversation. They have read the takes. We assume literacy and we save their time by not repeating what they already know.
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Reporting beats prediction.
We prefer one well-reported account of how a specific company restructured its support organization to ten thousand words of forecasting. The future is harder to write about honestly than the present is.
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Slow is a feature.
We publish once a week. We re-edit. We sit on pieces for a quarter when they need it. We are competing with the feed by refusing to be one.
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