What I’m reading (Work)
Kalina on (endurance) durational art
Last week I went to see Tehching Hsieh’s retrospective at Dia Beacon. The show is called Lifeworks 1978-1999 and it’s up through 2027.
Have you ever heard of Tehching Hsieh? He is, in my opinion, one of the greatest durational artists of the 20th century.I had never heard of Tehching Hsieh when I started my “everyday” project. I was 20 years old and I just thought it would be interesting to take a picture of my face every day. That was basically the whole idea. It wasn’t influenced or inspired by anyone.
I would only learn about Hsieh later. First, I learned about the Time Clock Piece. From April 11, 1980 to April 11, 1981, he punched a time clock every hour, on the hour, and photographed himself each time. 8,760 punches in a year.
Karpathy on AI exposure by occupation
You are an expert analyst evaluating how exposed different occupations are to AI. You will be given a detailed description of an occupation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Rate the occupation’s overall AI Exposure on a scale from 0 to 10.
AI Exposure measures: how much will AI reshape this occupation? Consider both direct effects (AI automating tasks currently done by humans) and indirect effects (AI making each worker so productive that fewer are needed).
A key signal is whether the job’s work product is fundamentally digital. If the job can be done entirely from a home office on a computer — writing, coding, analyzing, communicating — then AI exposure is inherently high (7+), because AI capabilities in digital domains are advancing rapidly. Even if today’s AI can’t handle every aspect of such a job, the trajectory is steep and the ceiling is very high. Conversely, jobs requiring physical presence, manual skill, or real-time human interaction in the physical world have a natural barrier to AI exposure.
(AI) Power to the people.
This is why retirees are lining up in Shenzhen. This is why people with no GitHub account are showing up at ClawCons. For the first time, they can feel AI’s intelligence, even if it is not very good. Yet. Not a demo. Not a keynote promise. Not big boys burning billion dollars a month. A thing that actually does things on their behalf. The gap between what you want done and what gets done has always required either your own time or someone else’s labor. OpenClaw makes that gap feel smaller. That feeling, even in its rough and half-broken form, is new.
It has been almost a month since I published How AI Goes To Work. “What OpenClaw shows is how AI will work in the background,” is what I wrote. “And that is what the ‘AI’ future looks like for normal people. Not a separate AI app. Intelligence woven into tools you already use. Doing work you used to do yourself. Or used to hire someone to do, done by software.”