ZD 26.20: Flexing Like a Super-Contributor
Technology is enabling experienced professionals to become super-contributors
🧑🏭HI-C is the New Career Flex (Elena's Growth Scoop)
Success was once measured by the size of the team reporting to you. Individual contributors capable of driving end-to-end projects delivering business value are rewriting this narrative.
🛠️ The New Work Stack (Taylor Pearson)
Integration and vision are becoming the key drivers of work. You can be a master builder, combining tools and building your own scaffolding to assist in your travails.
🔢 AI Now Integrates Seamlessly With Excel (Future-Proof Your Career with AI)
In 2026 you don’t need to bring your spreadsheet to AI, your AI will come to your spreadsheets.
🤦 Why Competent People Disappear (Off-Script At Work)
Functional stupidity infects many organizations. People are punished for too much thinking out loud. Critical questioning and genuine reflection are discouraged. Competent people often disappear rather than learn to flip the script and deliver clarity.
📖 The Inference Shift (Stratechery)
The compute story in AI is changing rapidly. It was once about NVIDIA and GPUs but it is rapidly becoming focused on inference workloads. Plentiful, cheaper, good enough compute gives China everything it needs for this work.
🤖 AI, Labor and China (@jasmine’s substack)
Jasmine visited Silicon Valley and China to get a read on the future of work in the AI era. The difference between American techno-pessimism and Chinese techno-pragmatism is stark.
🏝️ How Did Kitchen Islands Become a Thing? (Carbon Upfront!)
These days, every kitchen seems to have an island. Blame TV.
🎸 The Greatest Guitar Solo Ever? (Can't Get Much Higher)
Personally, I’d go with Free Bird.
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