The “This Time It’s Different” Myth
The capstone of Category 11: the belief that this moment is unprecedented is itself the oldest, most recurring pattern in the history of technology.
The capstone of Category 11: the belief that this moment is unprecedented is itself the oldest, most recurring pattern in the history of technology.
The employer-side half of tech work mythology: why activity tracking measures the wrong variable, and what it actually costs.
The entrepreneurship half of tech work mythology: why removing the coding barrier doesn’t touch the eighteen months that actually determine whether a business survives.
The structural half of tech work mythology: how algorithmic management replaces a human boss with one that never introduces itself.
The quality-of-work promise in AI mythology: why “strategic work” rarely materializes without someone deliberately building the room for it.
The lifestyle-video half of AI mythology: real time savings, and why they rarely convert into an actual shorter week.
A field guide to the panic-driven AI course funnel — who profits, why the deadline is fake, and what to actually do instead.