What if the most valuable work in an organization is the work no one notices?
The Cost of Nothing Happening considers why we celebrate visible results while overlooking the maintenance that makes them possible.
AI is often presented as a way to reduce work, streamline systems, and help organizations move more efficiently. But implementation creates labor of its own: training, translating, troubleshooting, repairing, and negotiating the distance between what a tool promises and how work actually happens.
Somewhere between soccer cleats, permission slips, and packed lunches lies a larger question: What are we teaching our children about work? This essay explores how families become cultures, how contribution creates belonging, and why joyful productivity has less to do with efficiency than with stewardship.
Anthro Pop is a collection of musings about the everyday world around us and breaking down what feels so truthful, awe-inspiring, or ripe for transitions by discourse about these topics through the lens of anthropology.
