Kevin Lee

Why more young workers are taking ‘micro retirements’ to fight corporate burnout More British Columbians are taking a beat with a self-funded “micro retirement” early in their careers, rethinking the concept of work, hustle culture and career tracks

An article on micro-retirements and other ways of organizing your life amid the rise of the #FutureOfWork, featuring excerpts from an interview featuring yours truly

www.bcbusiness.ca/people/lifes...

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

Strong piece in the New Yorker re: what it means to be human in the age of AI, from a humanities prof. (Spoiler alert: it's the ineffable self, what it's like to be *you*).

IMHO this solipsistic vision still misses what's vital: the relationship *between* humans

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

After Meta blocked news from its platforms in Canada, hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing pages has become a staple in the Facebook and Instagram feeds of Canadians in the run... TikTok video by The New York Times

Wicked important story for those in Canada wondering how Meta’s news ban is impacting election integrity.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj2TqQHN/

Job hunting and hiring in the age of AI: Where did all the humans go? AI tools meant to streamline hiring and simplify the job hunt are vexing recruiters and job seekers alike, leaving them longing for human connection.

How AI promised to make hiring better & ruined it instead:

"The answer "can’t be let’s get AI to screen people, because that is likely biased & easy to game,” Freire said. “And it can’t be let’s talk to everybody, because now instead of 50 CVs I have 1,500.”

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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ASA Vice President (and member!) Allison Pugh @allisonpugh.bsky.social‬ J@jhu.edu discusses the role of data in education, educational inequality and standardized testing, AI/relationships/connection, and more in the most recent episode of the podcast Aiming for the Moon.

Definitely something about this being a Rorschach test for the Google algorithm ... something also about how that keys into culture / society?

Emboldened by Trump, A.I. Companies Lobby for Fewer Rules After the president made A.I. dominance a top priority, tech companies changed course from a meeker approach under the Biden administration.

"Tech executives warned lawmakers that generative AI ... had the potential to disrupt national security and elections, and could eventually eliminate millions of jobs ... But since President Trump’s election, tech leaders and their companies have changed their tune"

Speaking of Solidarity with Michèle Lamont Moral Matters: Conversations with Sociologists on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity · Episode

Listen to the latest episode of the ASA Altruism Morality & Social Solidarity Section's Moral Matters podcast, featuring a conversation w/ ASA member Michele Lamont @mlamont.bsky.social on her book, Seeing Others: How Recognition Works, and How it Can Heal our Divided World.

Hello world! We at the AJS are pleased to have our bluesky account all systems go!  We’ll be announcing our issues, accepted papers, and other relevant happenings. Watch this space for more.

Springtime Papers and a Guest Column on Qualitative Research Deputy Editor (and alpaca expert) Andrew Nelson explains qual for quants

🌟 Fresh Insights from Organization Science! 🌟

🥁 New Paper Report: Four newly accepted papers!

📝 Editorial Thoughts: Andrew Nelson offers a must-read column on what quant researchers should know about qual research.

Read more 👉 orgsci.substack.com/p/springtime...

Opinion | Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives. Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

"Going mostly by summary and assumption, students ... see the Cartesian grid, the lines on a map that chart the ocean, but they 'don’t see the waves' ... They see 'the metrics that can be measured rather than the reality that those metrics are simply trying to approximate.'" @nytimes.com

"The purpose of AI is not scale or efficiency. The purpose of AI is people."

It's a phenomenal book! Would love to hear your thoughts

I, alongside many others, am taking the time to mourn #MichaelBurawoy today. What a profound loss for sociology and the world