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[buzzsprout episode='12212210' player='true'] In a recent video, Russell Brand jokes about robots escorting you back to your dead-end job. And it certainly made me wonder: is the future filled with dead-end jobs? Is that what we all have to look forward to? And what constitutes a dead-end...

https://fortune.com/2023/02/02/bosses-monitoring-workers-productivity-paranoia-backfiring Ya don't say! "As white-collar workers enjoy a bit of distance from the office, some employers have taken to spying on them to make sure work is getting done. Eight of 10 major private employers in the U.S. are tracking productivity, the New York Times revealed...

[buzzsprout episode='12183180' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 2/4 - 2/10. ✔️What's going on with the "spy" balloon? ✔️Are bail-ins on the horizon? ✔️"You don’t have a recession when you have 500,000 jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years." 😂 ✔️Supposedly, hiring is still robust and the...

Image created by me using Canva. An eye-popping jobs report. Yeah, I'd say so. Eye popping in how bogus it is, in my opinion. "The resilience of the labor market in the face of rising interest rates and stubborn inflation continues to surprise economists. The U.S. economy...

[buzzsprout episode='12155437' player='true'] In 2014, Glenn Greenwald published No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. The book became a NYT Bestseller but now, almost a decade later, does anyone care? Links: https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos-am23-ready-for-brain-transparency-english https://www.amazon.com/MindWar-Michael-Aquino-Ph-D/dp/1535199563 Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/ Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/   Transcription by Otter.ai.  Please...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/feb/3/nsa-wooing-thousands-laid-big-tech-workers-spy-age/ Apparently my reading of No Place to Hide all these years later was more prescient than even I could have guessed. "The National Security Agency is doggedly courting laid-off Big Tech workers as the spy agency undertakes one of its largest hiring surges in the last...

Image by Leandro De Carvalho from Pixabay I've been reading Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State. Needless to say, it's nightmare fuel. From page 42 of the paperback version: "...

For white collar work, I’m not seeing as many jobs posted and in looking at what’s available, more ads are asking for hybrid, full RTO, or remote as long as you live within a certain radius of the office. The pace of hiring has also...

[buzzsprout episode='12139574' player='true'] On January 28th, Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen published the video "Stop Celebrating Stupidity | The Rise of Anti-Intellectualism," which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmFn619GnrI. Are we celebrating stupidity? Have we descended into anti-intellectual madness these days? Key topics: ✔️ At 7:28, I believe he hits the nail on...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/bosses-hope-fresh-rto-requirements-will-stick-experts-arent-so-sure.html REALLY? Print this article and save it. I am begging you. I want to see how this content ages and I predict: probably not well. "If 2022 was the year corporate bosses planned for a mass return to offices, 2023 might usher in a new era of...