Future-of-Work

** In a world of infinite content and scalable intelligence, the scarcest resource may no longer be intelligence itself — but the ability to truly see another human being, and to be seen in return.** By Sinclair Huang I walked into a bookstore — and realised something uncomfortable A few days ago, I walked into a bookstore. Surrounded by shelves of books — many of them thoughtful, deeply human, and difficult to summarise — I had a quiet realisation: ...

Work, ownership, and the new architecture of economic security By Po-Sung(Sinclair) Huang For decades, people believed that working hard was enough. In the AI era, that assumption is quietly breaking. Not because work disappears, but because ownership matters more than ever. In the AI era, relying on labour income alone is no longer a neutral choice. It is an active form of risk. That sentence may sound harsh. But it captures a structural shift that many people can already feel, even if they do not yet have the language for it. They feel it in markets. In career anxiety. In the fear of being left behind by a technology wave they did not ask for, do not fully control, and may not directly benefit from. ...

From dBase and enterprise systems to the internet revolution and generative AI, I have come to see AI not as a sudden break, but as the latest step in a long slope of automation now reaching human cognitive work itself.* By Po-Sung(Sinclair) Huang I did not decide to write this essay because AI suddenly became fashionable. It came out of two images that collided in my mind. One was a group of younger people trying to imagine new ventures built around AI. The other was the story of a father facing a rare disease so obscure it seemed to leave almost no path forward, and yet continuing, late into the night, to search for a way through with the help of computation, search, and structured reasoning. ...