The Safe Place to Be Bad
AI is thinning the first rung of white-collar work, where low-stakes mistakes once taught judgment. The loss may be less the job than the supervised place to be bad.
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apprenticeship
What the Counter Can't Teach
When March 2020 sent office work to kitchen counters, task work survived first. The harder loss was the apprenticeship beginners got from overhearing, interrupting, and being corrected near people who knew.