• Regular Claude users are slightly less likely to have personal conversations with it

• Some notes on the political economy of AGI

• The psychic structure of disciplinary imperialism

• An experiment: how to use Claude Opus 4 to help myself say ‘no’ to stuff at work

• Generative AI in the charity sector

• My notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport

• Ubiquity and multimodality is what will enable GAI to show up in everyone’s lifeworld

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• The creative freedom of post-work

• Silicon Valley’s cult of work

• A bleakly plausible future for post-pandemic labour

• Nietzsche on the narrow chamber of human consciousness

• The Digital Monad

• The digital hipster: when cultural modernism meets accelerated work

• The Ideal of the Digital Nomad

• The ascent of the spiralists

• The duality of the platform: users and workers

• The Workation

• Against the notion of ‘craft’: thoughts on the cultural politics of romanticising exploitation

• The colonisation of life by work

• The Lived Reality of Work in Tech Firms

• The Zero Marginal Cost Society

• “Please, sir, may I go home?”

• The Pains of Work and the Relief of the Refrain

• “What do you do?”

• The Work Dogma and Contraction of the Existential Imagination

• The intensification of work and the death of imagination

• an uncertain future (for other people’s jobs)

• unpicking the political economy of digital cats

• enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

• smart phones and work place repression

• bureaucratic bloat as a defining feature of digital capitalism

• a taxonomy of corporate monitoring software

• the Japanese recovery of participatory Taylorism

• soft flexibility vs hard flexibility  

• the opaque subject and the elusive activity

• how much time do workers spend worrying?

• the digitally-facilitated intensification of work

• the pleasures of intensified work

• the politics of discretionary effort 

• social media and the promise of never again being alone 

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 2

• Who is this describing?