Archive - George Alliger

The crucial difference between labor and work

Only one of them can be entrusted to machines By George Alliger and Robert Zaretsky Updated April 26, 2023, 11:59 a.m., The Boston Globe

May 5, 2023 •

August 2022

Schroedinger's Cat, Nansen's Cat

How Two Cats – Each Neither Dead nor Alive – Can Help Us in Our Decision Making

Aug 1, 2022 •

July 2022

Merit and the god of Death

A young but unprepossessing student travels to the capital city to sit for civil service examinations. He is unfairly failed, but his merit is later…

Jul 25, 2022 •

This is George Alliger, a newsletter about Work and other things.

Jul 25, 2022 •

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