I had multiple conversations over the weekend about the current and future state of work in the United States. Speaking with a seasoned attorney, a young attorney in her 30s, and a software engineer with seven years in the field, we quickly arrived at the topic of AI. The software engineer had a company mandate to use AI for coding. The dissonance in using a tool poised to take his job was not lost on him. But it was mandated and he found it useful, albeit reliably fallible,

I’ve been watching a lot of Seinfeld recently. All of the characters perfectly straddle the line between normal and insane. Yes, even Kramer. And I’ve found I relate to all of them the most when they are defending the social contract. The social contract theory is as old as Socrates and has been argued about by philosophers and lay-people alike for centuries. In the Seinfeld world, the social contract boils down to expectations, i.e., what is expected of you by other people a