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Chris S - The Next RungAI is automating knowledge work faster than anyone admits. I'm writing the book on it, building an AI Chief of Staff for SMEs, and advising businesses on what's coming. 15 years in digital, marketing, and EdTech. London.
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GDP got cut. Again.
The UK GDP growth forecast for 2026 has been halved. Down from 1.1 per cent to somewhere between 0.4 and 0.7 per cent, depending on whose model you trust. The Iran war’s energy shock did most of the damage. Inflation was 2.8 per cent in Apr...
Half of UK employers dropped the degree requirement
Fifty per cent of UK organisations have eliminated degree requirements from their job postings. That’s up 28 per cent year on year. Eighty-five per cent now say they use skills-based hiring.
The degree is a proxy. It always was. It told em...
Everyone gets a penthouse
Everyone gets a penthouse.
That’s the promise. Universal high income, not the basic sort, the high sort. Work becomes optional. Money becomes, and this is his word, irrelevant. Ten to twenty years and nobody has to earn a living ever again...
The busiest person on the team
There’s someone on a team I know who is very good at their job. Ten-odd years in, knows the technical side better than anyone else in the building, the sort of person who will happily spend a day and a half building a spreadsheet that answe...
The 38% drop nobody noticed
UK job adverts in roles most exposed to AI automation have dropped 38 per cent since 2022. Not layoffs. Not redundancies. Not restructuring announcements. The job that was never posted.
That number doesn’t show up in the unemployment figur...
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