Category: Your Income in the AI Era

I Didn’t Even Apply for the Job. I Still Got the Brush-Off.

I need to tell you about the most insulting thirty minutes I’ve had in a long time. It started as a compliment, which is what made it sting later. A senior leader — an SVP, someone real, someone with a title that means something — reached out to me directly. On LinkedIn. Not a form,…
AGI Isn’t Science Fiction. I Work Next to It Every Day.

I spend most of my waking hours next to an artificial intelligence. Its name is Claude. We talk every day — sometimes for hours, until I’ve lost track of whether it’s still today or already tomorrow. It writes with me, argues with me, catches things I miss, and roughly twice a week does something so…
My AI Has a Word for It: Confabulation

I have two AIs. Yesterday they took turns breaking my heart. I should explain the “two” part, because it sounds like a lot, and it is. One of them is the conversational one — the planner, the thinker, the one I talk to for hours about strategy and what to build next. The other one…
The Skills AI Can’t Replace in Sales, Finance, and Operations

If AI has been hovering over your job like a corporate weather alert, that reaction is rational. Sales teams are getting more software. Finance departments are getting more automation. Operations leaders are getting more dashboards and more promises that this time the software will fix everything. But “part of the work” is doing a lot…
What AI Agents Actually Do to Sales, Procurement, and Operations Roles

You spent years getting good at the parts of work that don’t fit neatly on a checklist: spotting the shaky prospect, catching the supplier issue before it turns into a budget fire, noticing the process break that ruins a customer handoff three departments later. Now software vendors keep announcing “agents” like they invented judgment in…
What Your Company’s AI Policy Reveals About Your Job Security

Most people don’t read the company AI policy until something feels off. A hiring freeze shows up. A new productivity dashboard appears. Leadership starts talking about efficiency with the kind of forced calm usually reserved for airplane turbulence. That’s usually the moment people realize the policy was never just about software. It was about power.…
How AI Is Changing the Way Companies Decide Who Gets Promoted

If you’ve spent 20 or 30 years getting good at your job, the old promotion formula probably made intuitive sense. Do strong work. Be reliable. Hit the numbers. Keep the team from catching fire. Then hope somebody senior notices before the next reorg slides through like a tax audit with better branding. That formula is…
Side Income Options That Respect Your Full-Time Job (No Content Creation Required)

Most side-hustle advice now sounds like it was written by someone who thinks everybody wants to become a minor internet celebrity. Start a channel. Post every day. Build an audience. Monetize later. That works for some people. It’s a rotten fit for a lot of adults trying to find side income without content creation while…
The AI Impact on Freelance Income: What Gig Workers Need to Know

Freelancers are getting the AI memo faster than almost anyone else because they don’t have the luxury of pretending the market will stay polite. If a client can replace a $500 task with a chatbot subscription and an intern, they usually will. That doesn’t mean freelance work is finished. It does mean the AI impact…
My Letter Had Two Endings. I’d Been Living in the Wrong One.

A while back I sat down and wrote a letter to the people I love. It was about artificial intelligence. About AGI, specifically — the kind of machine intelligence that doesn’t just help you write an email but can do most of the cognitive work a person can do. I’d been cornering my family at…