Stowe Boyd
@stoweboyd.bsky.social
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.
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.
Short Takes #2: Color of the Year, Layoffs, AI Sales
Cloud Dancer | Layoffs Reach 1.17M | Microsoft AI Sales Stall
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Cloud Dancer | Layoffs Reach 1.17M | Microsoft AI Sales Stall
www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...
Short Takes #2: Color of the Year, Layoffs, AI Sales
Cloud Dancer | Layoffs Reach 1.17M | Microsoft AI Sales Stall
www.workfutures.io
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Short Takes #2: Color of the Year, Layoffs, AI Sales
Cloud Dancer | Layoffs Reach 1.17M | Microsoft AI Sales Stall
www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...
Cloud Dancer | Layoffs Reach 1.17M | Microsoft AI Sales Stall
www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...
Short Takes #1: Welcome to Short Takes
Drinking the AI Kool-Aid | Losing Faith | Vacancies = Follow The Money | Chatbot Addiction
This is the first Short Takes, a new workfutures' feature, free to all.
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Drinking the AI Kool-Aid | Losing Faith | Vacancies = Follow The Money | Chatbot Addiction
This is the first Short Takes, a new workfutures' feature, free to all.
www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Short Takes #1: Welcome to Short Takes
Drinking the AI Kool-Aid | Losing Faith | Vacancies = Follow The Money | Chatbot Addiction
This is the first Short Takes, a new workfutures' feature, free to all.
www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...
Drinking the AI Kool-Aid | Losing Faith | Vacancies = Follow The Money | Chatbot Addiction
This is the first Short Takes, a new workfutures' feature, free to all.
www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...
The Nodfather, Dozy Don
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Nodfather, Dozy Don
Snap.
The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Statement from the American Economic Association
www.aeaweb.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Snap.
Word of the Day: Rage Bait
I'm down with the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year.
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I'm down with the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year.
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Word of the Day: Rage Bait
I'm down with the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year.
www.stoweboyd.io
December 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Word of the Day: Rage Bait
I'm down with the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year.
www.stoweboyd.io/p/word-of-th...
I'm down with the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year.
www.stoweboyd.io/p/word-of-th...
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Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.
Word of the Day: Broetry
A barrage of single sentence paragraphs culminating in some chest-thumping way.
Very LinkedIn.
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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.
www.stoweboyd.io
November 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Word of the Day: Broetry
A barrage of single sentence paragraphs culminating in some chest-thumping way.
Very LinkedIn.
www.stoweboyd.io/p/word-of-th...
A barrage of single sentence paragraphs culminating in some chest-thumping way.
Very LinkedIn.
www.stoweboyd.io/p/word-of-th...
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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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
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
www.workfutures.io/p/only-of-th...
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
www.workfutures.io/p/only-of-th...
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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
After reading this I wanted to take a shower.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
After reading this I wanted to take a shower.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Word of the Day: Coverture
When a woman's rights were subsumed by those of her husband.
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When a woman's rights were subsumed by those of her husband.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Word of the Day: Coverture
When a woman's rights were subsumed by those of her husband.
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When a woman's rights were subsumed by those of her husband.
www.stoweboyd.io/p/word-of-th...
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | The Bad Reasoning in the Meta Antitrust Ruling Isn’t Even the Worst Part
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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.'
www.thebulwark.com/p/letter-fro...
www.thebulwark.com/p/letter-fro...
A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio
Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.
www.thebulwark.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 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.'
www.thebulwark.com/p/letter-fro...
www.thebulwark.com/p/letter-fro...
Word of the Day: Conflict Entrepreneur
Where there is online strife, there's a buck to be made.
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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.
www.stoweboyd.io
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Word of the Day: Conflict Entrepreneur
Where there is online strife, there's a buck to be made.
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Where there is online strife, there's a buck to be made.
www.stoweboyd.io/p/word-of-th...
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...
Anti-immigration policy is backfiring.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 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...
Anti-immigration policy is backfiring.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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.
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Ding, dong, the witch is dead.
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
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?
newrepublic.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 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.
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Ding, dong, the witch is dead.
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
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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In 2023, I transposed Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers into the business context.
Now, included in *How To Use Time*.
www.workfutures.io/p/layers-of-...
Pace Layers of Work
In 2023, I transposed Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers into the business context.
www.workfutures.io
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 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*.
www.workfutures.io/p/layers-of-...
In 2023, I transposed Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers into the business context.
Now, included in *How To Use Time*.
www.workfutures.io/p/layers-of-...
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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Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
No great loss. They lost Paul Krugman but retained Summers? Lol.
'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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | The Haves and Have-Nots Are, Once Again, at War
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
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...
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.
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 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...
Tech leaders have turned their backs on the people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Ryan Enos | 'The Democratic Party is primed for a hostile takeover.'
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ryandenos.substack.com/p/mamdani-an...
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Ryan Enos | 'The Democratic Party is primed for a hostile takeover.'
ryandenos.substack.com/p/mamdani-an...
ryandenos.substack.com/p/mamdani-an...
Reposted by Stowe Boyd
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
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
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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
www.workfutures.io/p/beyond-work
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
www.workfutures.io/p/beyond-work
Beyond Work
Corey Robin | Dani Rodrik on Good Jobs | Factoids
www.workfutures.io
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
www.workfutures.io/p/beyond-work
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
www.workfutures.io/p/beyond-work