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If Every Task Changes, Is It Still the Same Job?
There is a great thought experiment called the Ship of Theseus. It poses the question: if you replace every board on a ship, do you have a new ship or the same ship? This is a great way to reflect on the future of work.

Meg Bear
Apr 152 min read


Ask better questions
One of the things I’m most excited about in this Ambiguity Age is the realization that we are forced to ask better questions.

Meg Bear
Mar 112 min read


Retention is a terrible metric
The hard truth you need to hear
The labor market is expecting significant productivity gains in the next decade.

Meg Bear
Mar 52 min read




Word for 2025: Abundance
I started picking a word in 2017 (Generous, Impactful, Powerful, Joyful, Enduring, Expansive)

Meg Bear
Dec 14, 20242 min read


Inventing the Future
When we look at our world over the arc of time, we have to acknowledge that we have made a lot of progress.

Meg Bear
Nov 7, 20242 min read


The Future Is Interdisciplinary
Some of the innovations I’m most impressed with have not really been innovations at all – they have been deconstructions of prior innovation

Meg Bear
Oct 19, 20244 min read


Forming a venture investment thesis
One of the commitments I made to myself for Sabbatical was to invest time to craft a personal venture investment thesis.

Meg Bear
Jul 13, 20245 min read


Closing the Opportunity Gap
I graduated high school at 16, something that seemed completely normal to me at the time.

Meg Bear
Jun 15, 20244 min read


What does it mean to be an Ally
Just wrapped up my very first Lesbians who tech and alliesSummit and it was everything I was hoping it would be and a bit more.

Meg Bear
Oct 21, 20232 min read


A sustainable upskilling strategy.
As you know, I’ve been in the HR industry a long time and pattern recognition is my jam, so I can’t help but experience frustration with “to

Meg Bear
Feb 21, 20232 min read


It's Time to Re-Think Work
More than a decade ago I wrote an article for Workforce Magazine talking about what we would now call the gig economy.

Meg Bear
May 18, 20222 min read


Word for 2022: Joyful
Like most of us 2021 was a pandemic blur for me, a year of progress and power for sure

Meg Bear
Jan 1, 20221 min read
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