Some Assembly Required*

Some Assembly Required*

I’ve Lived Through More Than One End of the World.

What repeated cycles of technological disruption have taught me about survival, judgment, and hope.

Christopher Smith
Dec 15, 2025
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I don’t measure my career in job titles or companies. I measure it in moments of significant change.

Over the course of my life, I’ve watched this happen again and again. New tools. New platforms. New ways of making, distributing, and valuing work. Each time, they arrived with the same promise: everything will change. And each time, they did, just not al…

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