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The Sunday Signal Podcast

The Sunday Signal Podcast

Von: David Richards MBE
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 Thinking clearly about what’s actually changing. The Sunday Signal is a weekly audio essay series by David Richards MBE, exploring the intersection of technology, markets, education, and human judgment. Each episode takes a step back from the noise of daily news to examine deeper structural shifts shaping society. Not what just happened, but why it matters, what history can tell us about it, and which assumptions are quietly breaking. From artificial intelligence and the future of work, to capital, power, institutions, and learning, The Sunday Signal connects ideas that are usually discusseDavid Richards MBE
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  • The Loom, the Layoff, and the Life Raft: Are You the New Luddite?

    The Loom, the Layoff, and the Life Raft: Are You the New Luddite?
    Feb 22 2026

    Two hundred years ago, the most skilled craftsmen in England watched their wages collapse by eighty per cent. Not because they got worse at their jobs. Because the machine stopped needing their skill and only needed their output.

    We called them handloom weavers. They were the software developers of their day.

    In this episode, David Richards MBE draws the line between 1826 and 2026, and it is uncomfortably straight. The junior developer, the paralegal, the content writer, the market research analyst. All of them are inside the same pattern the weavers were inside. All of them are in the Slow Squeeze. And most of them are making the same mistake the weavers made.

    This week: the ten jobs taking the hardest hit from AI displacement right now, why Dario Amodei's Davos prediction changes everything about the most reliable career advice of the last twenty years, and the ninety-day plan that separates the people who own the machine from the people who get replaced by it.

    The weavers who survived did not weave faster. They stopped confusing the tool they used with the knowledge they held.

    That lesson is two hundred years old. It has never been more urgent.

    The Sunday Signal is published every week at newsletter.djr.ai
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