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‘There's the concept of the job, but the job is not actually the atomic unit of what happens in the workplace. The atomic unit of what happens in the workplace is the task.

Everybody wants to talk about job loss, but the attention should be directed to the task changing.
A classic example of task changing was when executives never used typewriters or personal computers themselves. If you were a vice president of a company in 1970, you did not have like a typewriter or computer on your desk typing things.
You had a secretary who you dictated memos. And then there was this change where email started to show up. And what would happen was the job of the secretary then went from sending out letters with stamps on them to sending or receiving emails with the other admins.
And then the secretary would print out the email and bring it into the executive's office. Fast forward to today, none of that happens. Executives just do all their own emails but they still have secretaries or admins, but they're now doing different tasks like travel planning and orchestrating events etc.

The executive job still exists, the secretary job still exists, but the tasks have changed.’

Thoughts from Marc Andreessen on Lenny's Podcast.