Anna Louie Sussman, New York Times contributing opinion writer and author of Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty talks about her new book that explores, through analysi...

Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.

I am thinking about nudging my autistic son’s employer to give him more hours, potentially risking federal benefits. Please tell me if I’m crazy.

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

I want to juxtapose two classes of people in the security industry on the defender side of security engineering for products. The first are the Security as Identity people. This goes back to the security-as-counterculture attitude, glamorized in Hackers and dating back to phone phreaking. It reflects Thompson’s “Workism”, where work is not just a way to earn a living, but a way to build a sense of identity, purpose, and community. In the case of security, this identity tends to be built around being different, seeing things other people do not, and being clever in an edgy and misunderstood way. Someone who is beyond merely a security professional, but has the persona of a Hacker. Stylish outsiders smarter than the system. Detectives finding insights others miss.

I want to juxtapose two classes of people in the security industry on the defender side of security engineering for products. The first are the Security as Identity people. This goes back to the security-as-counterculture attitude, glamorized in Hackers and dating back to phone phreaking. It reflects Thompson’s “Workism”, where work is not just a way to earn a living, but a way to build a sense of identity, purpose, and community. In the case of security, this identity tends to be built around being different, seeing things other people do not, and being clever in an edgy and misunderstood way. Someone who is beyond merely a security professional, but has the persona of a Hacker. Stylish outsiders smarter than the system. Detectives finding insights others miss.

I want to juxtapose two classes of people in the security industry on the defender side of security engineering for products. The first are the Security as Identity people. This goes back to the security-as-counterculture attitude, glamorized in Hackers and dating back to phone phreaking. It reflects Thompson’s “Workism”, where work is not just a way to earn a living, but a way to build a sense of identity, purpose, and community. In the case of security, this identity tends to be built around being different, seeing things other people do not, and being clever in an edgy and misunderstood way. Someone who is beyond merely a security professional, but has the persona of a Hacker. Stylish outsiders smarter than the system. Detectives finding insights others miss.

Talking about how Workism arose from the period when IBM PC …

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

No, your career is not your path to fulfillment.