Ideas
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Book Preview: Essays in AI: Automation, Tech and the Future of 9-5 Work
I’ve been in the final stages of finishing a new book of essays on AI, Automation…
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Young People Are Ignored by the Mainstream Media
In 1997, Gangland: cultural elites and the new generationalism dominated Australia’s book scene. Arguing that young people were…
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Thomas Jefferson: How Law Should be Part of a Broad Training in the Liberal Arts
I find it interesting sometimes to contrast the narrow, vocational-based education system we have today with…
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Automating Job Applications: Should a Robot Apply For a Job on Your Behalf?
An estimated 90% of large companies are using automated software to read and respond to resumes. From tracking software that…
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Expert culture has killed the innovator in workplaces
Over the last few decades, the Western world has had an increasingly specialised workforce, with workers…
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Degrees of separation: companies shed degree requirements to promote merit over qualifications
At the end of 2016, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that close to two-thirds…
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Lifetime Employment in Japan: Casual Work, Part-Time Work and Women under Equal Opportunity Law
Lifetime employment has long been the cornerstone of corporate governance in Japan. College graduates at large…
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The Election of Donald Trump Sounds the Death Noll for Privilege and Identity Politics
It’s May 26, 2016 and Donald J. Trump attends a presidential rally in Bismarck, North Dakota.…
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How Specialisation is Destroying My Generation
Gertrude Stein originally called those who returned from World War I a ‘lost generation’, disoriented, wandering…
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The Non-Coercive State: The Creation of Pacifist Societies
In Political Liberalism, John Rawls argues that, “political power is always coercive power backed by the…
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