AI & Work News Digest — Feb 20, 2026

Here’s what mattered this week in AI and the Future of Work.

Feb 20 • rahhb.eth

Cognitive Debt: The Hidden Risk in Your AI-Powered Team

Its already lurking in your documents, your code and your team. When will it strike?

Feb 17 • Robert Merrill

December 2025

🧠 AI Skills Are the Next Big Thing — And Claude Just Showed Us How It’s Done

If you’re looking to automate your work using AI, don’t just prompt—teach.And the best way to teach AI? Skills.

Dec 15, 2025 • Robert Merrill

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August 2025

How to Hire Smart (or else Manage Tough)

Amateur leaders hire based on "gut feeling" alone, which is one of the worst mistakes you can make.I've done it, too, when building my own team.It felt…

Aug 19, 2025 • Robert Merrill

July 2025

Embracing AI: Your Next Career Superpower

AI is no longer a buzzword or a passing trend—it's a transformative force reshaping the workplace. If you’re still on the fence about integrating AI…

Jul 12, 2025 • Robert Merrill

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November 2024

6 Tips to Keep the Humanity in Your Hiring Process

In a world of accelerating automation, how can you keep that human touch in your hiring process? Here are six simple ways to not miss the person behind…

Nov 8, 2024 • Robert Merrill

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September 2024

The Future of Work is Here: Are You Ready for the Changes Ahead?

Adapting to a Shrinking Job Market: The Industries on the Rise and Decline, with Insights by Sector and Career-Stage plus actionable steps on how to…

Sep 5, 2024 • Robert Merrill

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September 2023

RTO: This 100yr Old Company Made a Hybrid Work Policy That Actually Works?

Did Smuck Zuck the Zuck? How did a 100yr old food company come up with a better Return to Office policy than the worlds biggest (and supposedly…

Sep 5, 2023 • Robert Merrill

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August 2023

Meanwhile, De Dollarization is Happening — Is That Bad?

If you are alive when this is being written, you've always lived in a world where the global settlement layer is *dollars*. What does de dollarization…

Aug 28, 2023 • rahhb.eth

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Finding Purpose in WHY?

Part of My Series: Lessons Learned Building and Bootstrapping my business. The ups, the downs, the successes and failures all needed a consistent…

Aug 3, 2023 • Robert Merrill

July 2023

Continually Humanize the Hiring Process

The greatest way to measure the effectiveness of your talent brand is to find out not the experience of hired candidates, but to find out the experience…

Jul 21, 2023 • Robert Merrill

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Building in Public: AI Tools for Job Seekers

Empowering Career Advancement in the Digital Age -- a few days ago, I posted a request on LinkedIn for beta-testers for a new set of Ai-enabled tools…

Jul 11, 2023 • rahhb.eth