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Jerkitude 2*

Posted on August 3, 2026August 3, 2026 by John Lubans

Sometime ago, the Media Lab at MIT worked on something called the Jerk-O-Meter app. No, it was not something to alert American tourists talking too loudly, or to set off an electric alarm when someone’s smoking a cigar in an elevator . No, too bad, nothing like that. Rather the J-O-M was to listen in…

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Team Robots and Thong Thursday

Posted on June 30, 2026July 8, 2026 by John Lubans

Democracy in the workplace has long been a theme in my research, teaching and writing, and for that matter, in my style of leadership. Typing Democratic Workplace in the search page for the blog’s archive, will get you to several mentions of the topic. Many workplaces, we are told daily,  are incorporating AI Robots, or…

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