Remote Work Made Most People Worse at Their Jobs
Remote work amplifies high-agency workers and quietly sands down the median. Apprenticeship died in calendar invites. The data is uncomfortable.
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Remote work amplifies high-agency workers and quietly sands down the median. Apprenticeship died in calendar invites. The data is uncomfortable.
There's no skills gap. There's a wage gap, a training gap, and an ATS gap — all on the employer's side of the desk.
The MIT license said "no warranty". The freeloading industry is the entitled party here, not the maintainer who just walked away.
Configuring the system feels like working on the thing. It isn't. And that loop is the entire product.
Real US home appreciation is ~0.4%/yr historically. The "wins" are leverage, forced savings, and survivor bias. The math is in the essay.
The bootcamp golden trade ended. AI compressed the median junior task. Value moved to taste, depth, and distribution.
More BTC is lost to forgotten seeds than every exchange hack combined. "Be your own bank" misprices retail risk and we should say so out loud.
Adherence dwarfs macros. DIETFITS and the Johnston meta-analysis show within-diet variance > between-diet differences.
The plane ticket isn't a personality. Transformation is a selection effect, and the bigger half happens at home.
30-min coffees are theater. What works is peer cohorts, your manager, public apprenticeship, and being sponsored.
Who runs Antagonistical, what we publish, and how to pitch a contrarian thesis without it just being noise.
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