# Bold Efforts

> Ideas on the future of work and living

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## Posts
- [The End of the Job Description](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/job-description): Why AI could change not just how we work, but how we define a job.
- [Software is becoming a service business](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/software-to-services): AI is making software easier to build. The harder problem is figuring out what to build, where to put it, and getting an organisation to actually use it.
- [Jevons Paradox, but for Work](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/jevons-paradox-for-work): AI can make each task cheaper and still leave us doing far more of it.
- [AI may be creating more jobs than you think](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/ai-and-jobs): AI is getting good enough to solve problems humans could not. That does not mean the economy runs out of work.
- [The People Who Make AI Actually Work](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/forward-deployed-engineer): Forward Deployed Engineers are becoming one of the most important roles in AI and this rise in FDE demand tells us something bigger about the future of software, services, and knowledge work.
- [What Happens When You Get Very Good at Your Job, and Then Automate Half of It?](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/good-work): AI is changing more than how much work we do. It is changing what it means to be good at work in the first place.
- [When Intelligence Becomes Abundant, What Becomes Scarce?](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/what-becomes-scarce): Attention? Intent? Judgement? Trust? Something else?
- [The AI agent moment has not (yet) arrived](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/ai-agent-moment): AI has learned to act. Most of the world is not ready to be delegated to.
- [The best AI systems know when not to use AI](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/intelligence): What processing two million job records a day taught me about rules, judgment, and the changing division of labour
- [How job search evolved, and what comes next](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/job-search): The internet made jobs easier to find and applications easier to collect. AI may finally make the market easier to trust.
- [The promise beneath education](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/education): Education does more than prepare people for work. It makes the link between effort and opportunity believable.
- [LinkedIn is slowly becoming the Facebook of work](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/linkedin): It still helps people build identity, reputation, and professional networks. But as a place to find a job, it is losing its purpose.
- [You own less than you think](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/ownership): We are moving into a world where you can pay for the game, the car, the camera, the book, and the software, while control sits somewhere else.
- [The household is the new operating system](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/household): Modern families now manage careers, money, care, health and borders. How well they coordinate these systems shapes the lives they can build.
- [Adulthood has no operating manual](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/adulting): The old life script gave people certainty. The new one gives people freedom, complexity, and too many choices. And that is not a bad thing, but...
- [Token maxxing is the AI version of staying late](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/token-maxxing): Token leaderboards look like progress. Most of the time, they reveal the old corporate habit of measuring activity because judgment is harder.
- [The Factory of One](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/one-person-factory): AI is changing the basic unit of productive work.
- [The Game Piece](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/everything-is-a-game): Everything is a game now. The question is who designed it, and for whom.
- [The Deferred Life Plan](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/deferred-life-plan): The milestone is always just ahead. The life is always just after.
- [Intelligence Was Never the Problem](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/ai-agreement-problem): The constraint has always been agreement. AI just makes it harder to ignore.
- [The Goodbye That Already Happened](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/last-day): Every job has a last good day. It is almost never the last day.
- [The Offshore That Grew Up](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/gcc): Forty years of evolution, 1.9 million engineers, and the one question the industry keeps refusing to answer.
- [Skipping the Beginner Stage](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/skipping-the-beginners): AI can do junior tasks. It cannot create senior judgment.
- [When Output Became the Job](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/is-output-the-job): The gap between fake work and real work just became invisible
- [Why Would Anyone Want to Come In?](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/rto-2026): Some companies build places people choose. Others send calendar invites and call it culture.
- [Fake Work](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/fake-work): AI is making it easier for companies to look busy without getting better
- [The Waiting Economy](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/the-waiting-economy): Hiring is improving in some pockets, but access to good work is getting narrower.
- [Cheap Intelligence, Expensive Trust](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/trust-in-ai-age): AI is making good output easier to produce. That does not make people less valuable. It changes what people are valued for.
- [The Safest Jobs No Longer Look the Same](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/safe-jobs): AI is squeezing digital work just as instability raises the value of essential human work
- [What Still Holds](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/what-still-holds): When the world gets tense, you stop caring about what looks smooth and start noticing what is actually strong.
- [Stability is a Prerequisite for Work](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/stability): A short note from Dubai
- [AI is the new scapegoat](https://www.boldefforts.com/p/ai-washing): The new corporate move is moral outsourcing