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Stowe Boyd
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Work anthropologist, researcher, analyst, writer.

www.workfutures.io.
@[email protected]

The economics and ecology of work, in a time of accelerating uncertainty in our lives, society, and business.

Work touches everything.
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Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Word of the Day: Broetry

A barrage of single sentence paragraphs culminating in some chest-thumping way.

Very LinkedIn.

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Word of the Day: Broetry
A barrage of single sentence paragraphs culminating in some chest-thumping way.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Only Of Their Tyranny

John Stuart Mill | Women in the Workforce Ruined Everything | Factoids

The serfs did not at first complain of the power of their lords, but only of their tyranny. | John Stuart Mill

David French on Helen Andrews

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Only Of Their Tyranny
John Stuart Mill | Women in the Workforce Ruined Everything | Factoids
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November 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Anand Giridharadas | 'The clubby deal-making and moral racketeering of the Epstein class is now the United States’ governing philosophy.'

After reading this I wanted to take a shower.

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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Word of the Day: Coverture

When a woman's rights were subsumed by those of her husband.

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November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Tim Wu | 'Many policies enacted in the 20th century to maintain economic fairness in the United States have been undermined or gutted: labor law, financial regulation, telecommunications law and taxation, among others.' […]

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | The Bad Reasoning in the Meta Antitrust Ruling Isn’t Even the Worst Part
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November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Mark Hertling channeling Clausewitz in a letter to Marco Rubio | 'A peace that ignores the fate of people under tyranny is merely the preface to their continued suffering.'

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A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio
Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Word of the Day: Conflict Entrepreneur

Where there is online strife, there's a buck to be made.

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Word of the Day: Conflict Entrepreneur
Where there is online strife, there's a buck to be made.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Wendy Edelberg | 'The immigrants who aren’t here because of Mr. Trump’s policies not only aren’t working here; they’re also not spending money here.'

Anti-immigration policy is backfiring.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Dean Baker | 'Those of us who care about progressive economic policy can hope that we’ve seen the last time [Larry] Summers will be calling the shots in a Democratic administration.'

Ding, dong, the witch is dead.

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Is This Finally and Blessedly the End of the Larry Summers Era?
The guy has dispensed bad economic advice for 35 years and had more lives than a cat. Are the Epstein revelations finally the end of the line?
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November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Pace Layers of Work

In 2023, I transposed Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers into the business context.

Now, included in *How To Use Time*.

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Pace Layers of Work
In 2023, I transposed Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers into the business context.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
No great loss. They lost Paul Krugman but retained Summers? Lol.
NYT says it will not renew Larry Summers' contract as a contributing writer for its Opinion section, after the publication of his emails with Jeffrey Epstein (Emine Sinmaz/The Guardian)

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November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
'Knowledge workers and service workers find themselves increasingly aligned…because the division between those making 5 figures and those making 6 matters less than the division between those who have significant bundles of investment capital and those who don’t.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | The Haves and Have-Nots Are, Once Again, at War
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November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Aaron Zamost | 'When tech is the villain instead of the hero, the future feels leaderless.'

Tech leaders have turned their backs on the people.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | I Worked All Over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ryan Enos | 'The Democratic Party is primed for a hostile takeover.'

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November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Hard to see @schumer.senate.gov being able to stay in leadership after this or in the senate, he was not the man for this moment
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Beyond Work | Stowe Boyd

Corey Robin | Dani Rodrik on Good Jobs | Factoids

There is no way to make life easier beyond work than to make it better at work. The two are linked.

| Corey Robin

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Beyond Work
Corey Robin | Dani Rodrik on Good Jobs | Factoids
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November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Michelle Goldberg | 'There are more than 50 House Democrats who are 70 or older (including Pelosi, who is 85), compared to just over 30 Republicans.'

Unwinding the Dem gerontocracy, starting with Pelosi.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
Opinion | Pelosi Is Retiring. Good.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
All Are Responsible | Stowe Boyd

Abraham Joshua Heschel | Art, Sport, or Extinct | Factoids

In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty; all are responsible.

| Abraham Joshua Heschel

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All Are Responsible
Abraham Joshua Heschel | Art, Sport, or Extinct | Factoids
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November 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
They Should Not Pay | Stowe Boyd

Claudia Sahm | Low Quality Jobs | Sad Desk Lunch | Stop Hiring Humans

Workers did not cause inflation, and they should not pay for bringing it down.

| Claudia Sahm

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They Should Not Pay
Claudia Sahm | Low Quality Jobs | Sad Desk Lunch | Stop Hiring Humans
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November 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Goldmacher, Zhang | 'Every single one of New Jersey’s 29 townships with a majority Hispanic population swung in Mr. Trump’s direction between 2020 and 2024 — by an average of 25 percentage points.'

Yikes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
What New Jersey Could Reveal About the Rightward Shift of Hispanic Voters
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November 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Michelle Goldberg | 'Platner has very little in common with 2015-era Trump, except this: His movement represents a voter insurgency that those atop his party seem unable to address or even fully grasp.'

Challenging the status quo, unseating the elites.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
Opinion | I Thought Graham Platner Was Finished. What I Saw in Maine Changed My Mind.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM