Via my account on LinkedIn, I occasionally publish “articles” (basically blog pieces) and shorter “posts” (which the site handles differently). Since there is no guarantee of their being maintained on that site, it seems prudent to copy that material out. I also find it useful to be able to access this material in one place.
A full list of LinkedIn articles & posts presented on this site is included below. The list is also broken down into sub-pages by date to facilitate access from the “Other blogs” dropdown in the top bar. These subpages are:
- LinkedIn articles & posts, 2014-16
- LinkedIn articles & posts, 2017 (Jan. – Jun.)
- LinkedIn articles & posts, 2017 (Jul. – Dec.)
- LinkedIn articles & posts, 2018 (Jan. – Jun.)
- LinkedIn articles & posts, 2018 (Jul. – Dec.)
- LinkedIn articles & posts, 2019 (Jan. – Jul.)
- LinkedIn articles & posts, 2019 (Aug. – Dec.)
- LinkedIn articles & posts, 2020
Here is the full list of “articles” (in bold) and collections of “posts” (in regular type):
- Ebola messaging in West African languages, Sep. 15, 2014
- More on ebola messaging in West African languages, Oct. 6, 2014
- “Translating Hope” and ebola messaging in African languages, Dec. 12, 2014
- Ebola messaging in African languages – taking stock and looking ahead, Dec. 12, 2015
- Sapir-Whorf in our millet? Vocabulary & food diversity, Jan. 18, 2016
- Back to the job-market-of-the-future, June 2, 2016
- Multilingual extension in Africa: Analysis & models, June 5, 2016
- LinkedIn + Microsoft = ½(good thing) ?, June 14, 2016
- The staggering numbers of recruiting & job seeking, Sep. 5, 2016
- Democracy’s “wins” depend on how well electoral systems work, Jan. 23, 2017
- AI, recruiting & job seeking, Mar. 2, 2017
- Questions re AI, data, & jobs, Mar. 2, 2017
- What if your resume “kept on file” didn’t just sit there?, Mar. 6, 2017
- CVs & cover letters need automation; job sites do AI, Mar. 28, 2017
- AI & the future of work, jobs, income & wealth, Mar. 28, 2017
- Towards AI for job seekers?, May 1, 2017
- Useless job interviews; recruiters’ tools converse, May 20, 2017
- Bots, chatbots, & job applications, May 26, 2017
- Some thoughts on AI, intelligent agents, & transformation of the job market, May 28, 2017
- Could bots do salary negotiations better than we do?, June 16, 2017
- An employment “filter bubble”?, June 24, 2017
- Other people’s job algorithms – is this a path we want to follow?, July 3, 2017
- Future of the job search & whose AI will change it, Sep. 22, 2017
- Early use of algorithms for hiring, Sep. 22, 2017
- The near future of job hunting, Sep. 24, 2017
- Algorithms behaving badly, Oct. 8, 2017
- AI’s languages; swarming bots, Oct. 8, 2017
- Investing in translation; diverse approaches to problems, Oct. 8, 2017
- African languages & mobile phones, Oct. 15, 2017
- Nature of the job market & future of jobs, Oct. 15, 2017
- Terminology relating to transcription & translation, Oct. 15, 2017
- Jobs as problem; work as broken; jobs not as work, Nov. 5, 2017
- Sociolinguistics of development & girls’ education in Africa, Nov. 5, 2017
- Limits of leadership; dangers of charisma; impossible job, Nov. 5, 2017
- AI, HR, recruitment & the individual, Nov. 11, 2017
- Whither resumes? (4 items), Dec. 3, 2017
- The problem with “get them to…” Jan. 30, 2018
- Four categories of “work” in Japanese & “ikigai,” Feb. 14, 2018
- “Work” & “jobs” in English; kinds of “work” in Japanese, Mar. 11, 2018
- Pay transparency; work only for money, Mar. 27, 2018
- AI for HR (2 items), Apr. 6, 2018
- Farmers “prisoners” to tech; “democratize” AI, Apr. 6, 2018
- A gentle critique & constructive misuse of the “ikigai” meme, Apr. 22, 2018
- “TurboResume”?; the salary history question, May 19, 2018
- A 4-sphere Venn?; mythical retention data graphic, May 19, 2018
- One emergent AI property; 7 expected AI advances, May 19, 2018
- A shorter job-day; reconceptualizing types of work, May 19, 2018
- Abandoned job applications; time lost on completed applications, Sep. 8, 2018
- Power, productivity, & wealth (2 items), Oct. 14, 2018
- Self-driving possibilities; AI limitations, Oct. 14, 2018
- Key-person risk (2 items), Nov. 26, 2018
- “Crap sandwich” ; “too collaborative”? Nov. 26, 2018
- Physiological reactions to IVR & voice AI? Dec. 5, 2018
- Helping whistleblowers ; anti-corruption, Dec. 10, 2018
- North of ikigai: Skilled, motivated, needed, and unpaid, Dec. 23, 2018
- West of ikigai: Skilled, motivated, & paid, but not needed? Jan. 1, 2019
- Rejoinder re wood energy; potential for desalination, Feb. 10, 2019
- 3rd phase of clean energy; biomass as risky business, May 19, 2019
- Decoupling income from “traditional work”? Maybe it’s bigger than that, May 23, 2019
- East of ikigai: Motivated, needed, & paid, but not skilled, June 17, 2019
- AI & power; AI & BS, June 30, 2019
- Peter Principle revisited; If your boss could do your job, July 7, 2019
- Two meanings of “work” (3 items), July 20, 2019
- Shorter job-days or shorter job-weeks, July 20, 2019
- IYIL 2019 launched; Adlam & Latin, Aug. 11, 2019
- African languages as indigenous languages? Aug. 22, 2019
- Recruitment in 10 years; Automation & recruitment, Aug. 25, 2019
- Workers & automation – need laws, hate algorithms (2 items), Sep. 1, 2019
- Matching skills & positions; AI copywriter, Sep. 28, 2019
- ICT4D Non-Conf.; Eradication of poverty, Oct. 27, 2019
- Robots shouldn’t look like us; Why gender voice assistants? Nov. 28, 2019
- A 5- or 6-hour jobday (& why not “workday”), Dec. 30, 2019
- Trekonomics; innovation without pay; economic value, Dec. 30, 2019
- AI vs AI; using biological data for better storytelling, Dec. 30, 2019
- AI job interviews (3 items), Jan.18, 2020
- 3- & 4-circle “purpose” Venns (2 items), Jan. 18, 2020
- Power, brain damage, incompetence & the “cult of the tech founder,” Jan. 19, 2020
- Abandoned ag land; tree species in reforestation, Jan. 19, 2020
- Multitasking; productivity in office spaces; motivation, Jan. 26, 2020
- Languages & UBI; lang tech in Africa; MT; missing words, Jan. 26, 2020
- Blame for climate crisis; Britain & “zero-carbon,” Jan. 30, 2020
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