Zero-Demographics

You Called It CQO. I’ve Been Living It. An Open Letter to Erik Brynjolfsson Dear Professor Brynjolfsson, In your recent TIME piece on how AI changed work, you wrote that the most valuable workers of the coming decade will be “Chief Question Officers”—people whose primary job is knowing what to ask, why it matters, and how to evaluate whether the AI actually succeeded. Architects, not builders. That is the job I’ve been doing for nine years, long before I had a name for it—and the last four months have been a live-fire test of that CQO model at production scale. ...

The Solidarity Stack — Built, Not Theorized An Open Letter to Trebor Scholz Dear Professor Scholz, You and Mark Esposito just published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review that a democratic AI cannot simply rent space on the extraction stack — that workers, communities, cooperatives, and public institutions must reclaim ownership of the infrastructure itself, layer by layer, from the earth to the cloud. I read that and recognized every layer. ...