The economists called a jobs apocalypse. Then May added 172,000 jobs and doubled Wall Street's estimate. Theresa Fesinstine and Anthony Onesto unpack what that number really means, and why "AI is coming for your job" is the wrong story.

This one runs from the hiring bias nobody intended to build (the scorecard that quietly follows you across every job you apply to for a year) to the guy in a Utah workshop itching to spin up his own servers while 90% of the room had no idea where to start. Along the way: a 20-year-old who turned a creepy yellow room into a hit movie, why "Name That Tune" might be the future of hiring, and Theresa deciding mid-episode to start writing a book about timeshare work.

In this episode, we discuss:
Economists vs. Reality: Why the jobs report keeps embarrassing the experts, and what "people and machines" actually looks like on the ground.
The Scorecard That Haunts You: How one applicant system can tag you for a role you didn't get and carry that judgment everywhere for 365 days, no human in sight.
Proof Over Pedigree: A 20-year-old filmmaker, a classroom of undergrads building their own apps, and the case for hiring on what you've actually done.
Work as a Timeshare: Fractional roles, the polypreneur, and the question nobody's asking. If work stops being where we connect, then what?

Timestamps (Chapters)
00:00 - Welcome Back to Breaking Views
00:22 -172,000 Jobs and the Apocalypse That Wasn't
03:35 - Trusting the News Like You Trust a Weather Forecast
06:18 - The Scorecard That Follows You Everywhere
09:32 - Shiny Object Syndrome and the Fear of Falling Behind
11:21 - Why Human-in-the-Loop Isn't Optional
14:50 - The 20-Year-Old Who Built a Hit Movie
19:33 - Proof Over Pedigree: The End of the Resume
25:28 - Hiring as "Name That Tune"
30:47 - Architecting the Company From Scratch
37:07 - If Work Goes Fractional, Where Do We Connect?
45:04 - Closing Hot Takes: AI IPOs and SpaceX