knowledge work
6 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 9, 2025 by Drew Houston · across every show →
Everything said about knowledge work, oldest first
Jan 9, 2025 positive
Houston: Decoupling work from location is knowledge work's biggest shift since 1959
“This idea of our, we're finally decoupling work from the physical, our physical location. It's a big deal. It's probably one of the biggest changes to knowledge work in our lifetimes, or even since Drucker coined that term knowledge work in 1959.”
May 2, 2026 neutral
May 2, 2026 neutral
Schoening: Modern knowledge work effectively functions as universal basic income
“My take is that we already have universal basic income. It's called knowledge work. And I don't exclude my job from it, but if you really look about at what do we actually need to live and like to be content, it is a lot less than we've built this hierarchy. A…”
Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: Knowledge work AI requires showing intermediate citations and in-progress work
“A lot of work that we have done and have to continue to do is continue to adapt the product to knowledge work, which means way more focus on Making ChatGPT your collaborator, allowing you to see all the in-progress work, see its citations and inputs, help you …”
Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: Coding AI allows output verification; knowledge work requires process auditing
“Coding is so output oriented that when you ask it to do a coding task, you can verify whether it did the task correctly or well via tests. You can try it out and see if it works. Like there is a way to validate it based on the output. But knowledge work is dif…”