863 Applications Per Hire, 78% of Workers Scared, and Microsoft Blows Up HR
March 25, 2026: Fortune reports that the job market has gotten so broken that people are paying $1,500 a month just to have someone apply to jobs on their behalf — and on average it takes 863 applicat...
25 Mar 52min
CFOs Say AI Barely Touched Jobs, College Grads Still Worried, Anthropic Releases Economic Index Report
March 24, 2026: Three major research reports dropped today with a combined picture of where AI and work actually stand right now. A landmark NBER working paper of nearly 750 CFOs finds AI had zero mea...
24 Mar 45min
Microsoft's Chief People Officer Reveals the Playbook on Scaling AI Without Losing Trust
The real bottleneck to AI isn't the code; it's our own ego. We're so hooked on being the "expert" that we've forgotten how to be beginners again, and in a world changing this fast, that's a dangerous ...
23 Mar 52min
Trump's AI Framework Is Here, Your Retirement Is at Risk, and Engineers Are Quitting for Tokens
March 20, 2026: The White House dropped its national AI legislative framework today — I go through the whole thing, because there's a provision about preempting state AI laws that is one of the most...
20 Mar 49min
NVIDIA CEO Says Leaders Lack Imagination, Cognizant's $4.5T Warning, & The Case Against the AI Apocalypse
March 19, 2026: Jensen Huang had one of the biggest weeks in tech at Nvidia's GTC — but his sharpest line wasn't about chips. When asked why companies are laying off workers, he said simply: because t...
19 Mar 44min
Liberal Arts Makes A Comeback, CEOs Freeze Hiring, & GDP Sees Ghosts
March 18, 2026: Two-thirds of CEOs are freezing hiring while betting billions on AI — and a gender economist argues they're cutting the very people needed to make those bets pay off. A 7,000-word Subs...
18 Mar 41min
Meta's Layoff Math, FedEx's Agent Army, & A Crazy AI Productivity Forecast
March 17, 2026: Five major AI models shipped in a single week in February. Your company's training budget grew 5%. Cathie Wood told Bloomberg this morning that AI is already pushing productivity above...
17 Mar 52min
The New Rules for People Leaders in an AI-Integrated Workplace - Emily Field, Chief People Officer of LPL Financial
Many managers today spend more time on paperwork and individual tasks than actually coaching their teams. This lack of true leadership hurts the employee experience and stops a business strategy from ...
16 Mar 53min
