Why WisdomBranch exists.
Frameworks for knowledge workers navigating the automation of knowledge work.
The standard advice for knowledge workers hit by automation is to “learn to work with AI.” That advice is correct and almost useless. It doesn't tell you what to preserve, what to rebuild, or how to think about the gap between what you knew how to do and what the new environment requires.
WisdomBranch builds frameworks for that gap.
The current series draws on the Shapiro PostLaborEconomics corpus: 87 CC0 reports on the structural economics of labor automation. Not as economics. As a set of structural questions about what knowledge work becomes when the procedural parts of it can be delegated to a language model.
The audience is knowledge workers who think for a living: researchers, writers, analysts, strategists. People for whom the work product is a thought, not a transaction.
The format is The Scaffold: 600–900 words, one concept, one framework, no padding. Each piece ends when the idea is complete.
WisdomBranch is a project of Some Luck Productions LLC, created by Andrew Luxem.