We’re in a stage place with AI right now where for most of us it’s still a parlour trick. Something that we’ve seen create images of the Pope in bling or summon up meal planners that we’ll never use. But we’ve not really seen how it will impact our jobs. Along the way there have…
See also: my first discussion with Zeynep Ton about the origin of the Good Jobs Strategy Zeynep Ton is the author of the Good Jobs Strategy – which holds the honour of being the book I refer to the most when it comes to talking about work. The book is explicitly about supermarket jobs, but…
Are you touch starved? Do you feel a touch hunger in your life? Michael Banissy is a psychologist whose work focusses on the importance of physical connection between people, he styles himself as part of a group of ‘scientists who stroke’. Touch has become sigmatised by the actions of those who have misused it, to…
An episode today that is a reflection on where work is going and what implications there are for cities, for workers and for life. Dror Poleg is a writer and commentator who thinks about how the internet is disrupting our lives. What sets him apart is his ability to see second and third order effects…
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Today’s discussion should land you right in the sweetspot of thinking about AI for your own job by taking a step back, by asking yourself how you can connect with AI and why you should. Today’s guest Professor Costas Andriopoulos explain curiosity is the engine of creativity. And by striving to be curious our minds…
Ellen Scott explains why Gen Z and Millennials need more from work Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletter Ellen Scott is the deputy digital editor of Stylist and someone who has achieved recognition for having a sharp eye when it comes to observing the changing face of work. Ellen was one of the…
I had a wonderful discussion with Robin Dunbar and his co-author Tracey Camilleri about the invisible ingredients of human relationships. Specifically the role that hormones, brain-size and time play in the connections we build. It invites us to question whether we could use those forces to make work better? Hormones are triggered by emotional interactions…
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