Afterwork
How technology disrupts not only jobs but also identity, purpose and life itself.
By Iwana Johannsen
Rick Foerster, Author of The Way of Work
“Afterwork is a hidden gem. Iwana has the ability to break down complex ideas and offer practical solutions grounded in real-world experience."
Afterwork Newsletter
Afterwork helps you navigate the biggest shift of our time as AI disrupts work as we know it. As jobs unravel, it explores what comes next: from portfolio careers to deeper questions of identity, purpose, and life after jobs.
What you'll receive.
Big Picture Thinking
Visionary thinking on the future of work and life.
We’re living through one of humanity’s biggest shifts in how we work and live. As AI disrupts jobs, we need to explore the deeper questions about what we define as work as well as about identity, purpose and how societies fund life after jobs (post labor economics).
New Work Models
Diving deeper into what's currently changing.
What comes next when full-time jobs are no longer the default? Explorations of portfolio careers, fractional work, and new models of organization and leadership.
Practical tools & Personal Stories
Helping you navigate the shift.
Frameworks, prompts, mental models, and small experiments to help you design your own way of working in uncertain times — grounded in honest reflections and personal stories from my own reinvention journey.
We don't need more doom and collapse-thinking right now. We need a positive vision, big ideas, fresh perspectives, and practical tools that build the confidence to navigate this shift.
Read on.
If you’re curious, start with a few of the articles below to see what Afterwork is about and how I think.
