Chris S - The Next Rung

Five books about the rules nobody wrote down
A friend of mine still has my copy of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Read it until the spine gave up and never gave it back, which I've decided to…
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Anthropic is worth more than most of the FTSE 100
The company whose API I build on is now worth more than all but a handful of the largest firms on Earth. That should concern you.
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The apprenticeship paradox
The economy needs 250,000 tradespeople. It just made them harder to train.
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GDP got cut. Again.
The UK economy is weaker than it was six months ago. AI displacement hitting a weakened economy is worse than AI displacement hitting a strong one.
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Half of UK employers dropped the degree requirement
The proxy is breaking. What replaces it matters more than most people realise.
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July 2026

Everyone gets a penthouse
Universal high income is the nicest thing you'll ever be told by the man who's about to stop needing you.
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The busiest person on the team
Nobody gets pulled aside for being too diligent.
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The 38% drop nobody noticed
UK job adverts in high-exposure roles have fallen by more than a third since 2022. This is the quiet squeeze in aggregate.
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Microsoft offered buyouts. The AI teams were exempt.
The two-speed company is here. One half builds the future. The other half gets a package.
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KPMG just gave Claude to 276,000 people
The Big Four stopped talking about AI and started deploying it. The people one tier below should be paying attention.
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Not This Week
The answer to "will AI replace me" comes with a shelf life, and nobody prints the date on it.
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The Forty-Seven Problem
Every AI deployment story gets told through the three humans still employed, not the forty-seven who aren’t
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