What Work Was Doing for Us
Everyone is arguing about AI and jobs. A deeper question intrigues me more: what was work doing for us that the paycheck wasn't?
Eric Turkington
est. 2026 · Amherst, MA
Eric Turkington
I think, I write, I build. This is where I put it all.
I build AI products for healthcare by day, and write about what all of this is doing to us by night. Essays on meaning, attention, and the human side of a rapidly shifting world. Photographs from wherever I happen to be.
“We are the bottleneck in our own revolution.”
— The New YOLO
“We are building a new form of higher intelligence. The least we can do is look it in the eye before we hand over the keys.”
— The New YOLO
“The agent manages the volume of the data; the physician manages the value of the care.”
— Agentic Entropy
“Intellectual growth and progress demands the messy, inefficient collision of different perspectives.”
— Agentic Entropy
“Carelessly deployed AI doesn't just substitute for our thinking; it actively reduces our tolerance for the friction required to do hard work.”
— The Scaffolding Deficit
“You end the day having produced more, but feeling proud of less.”
— What Work Was Doing for Us
“Some inflection points are only visible in hindsight, at which point it will be too late to catch up.”
— What Happens When 'Generation Voice' Grows Up?
“We don't want service to get in the way of the product. But we don't want the product to go entirely unattended. Call it "Self-service+".”
— The Self-Service Conundrum
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