PART 2 · CHAPTER 16 · What Being Early Changes

The New Division of Labor

The future of work is not human versus machine. It is human plus machine against the old way of doing things.

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WHAT THIS PAGE CONTAINS

A title, the published opening thesis and the chapter's section headings. The argument, evidence, examples and full prose remain in the book.

The chapter's route

  1. 01The Line Is Moving
  2. 02The Return of Comparative Advantage
  3. 03Why New Tools First Look Like Toys
  4. 04Roles That Fade
  5. 05Roles That Emerge
  6. 06What Only You Can Do
  7. 07The End of the Blank Page
  8. 08Brief, Generate, Judge, Iterate
  9. 09The Hybrid Team
  10. 10The Discipline of Verification
  11. 11Designing the Job You Want to Keep
  12. 12Against the Old Way
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