Melissa Gregg — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Melissa Gregg — On AI. 11 entries total. Each is a deeper-dive on a person, concept, work, event, or technology that the book treats as a stepping stone for thinking through the AI revolution. Click any card to open the entry; in each entry, words colored in orange link to other Orange Pill Wiki entries, while orange-underlined words with the Wikipedia mark link to Wikipedia.
Attentional Agreements
Explicit, gender-symmetric negotiations between domestic partners about the allocation of attention — counter-practice against production bleed at the relational level.
Attentional Ecology
The study of how AI-saturated environments shape the minds that live inside them — the framework for asking what becomes of judgment, curiosity, and the capacity for sustained attention when answers become abundant and friction is engineer…
Emotional Labor
Hochschild's 1983 concept for the management of feeling to produce a publicly observable display as a requirement of paid work — the invisible infrastructure of the commercial economy, now demanded of every knowledge worker collaborating w…
Gendered Boundary Labor
The disproportionate cognitive and emotional work — performed overwhelmingly by women — of maintaining the distinction between professional and domestic registers, intensified in the AI era by tools that make the boundary harder to see.
Presence Bleed
Melissa Gregg's term for the seepage of work consciousness into domestic life through digital connectivity — the contamination of one register by another until the original is unrecoverable.
Production Bleed
The AI-era successor to presence bleed — generative rather than reactive engagement, driven by internal creative impulse rather than external demand, producing liberation rather than burden.
Productive Tolerance
The psychological discipline of tolerating the awareness of unrealized productive potential without acting on it — the individual-level counter-practice the AI era demands.
Right to Disconnect
The class of labor regulations — first enacted in France (2017), now adopted across Europe and beyond — that establish employees' legal right to refuse work communications outside designated hours, the contemporary precedent for the tempo…
The AI Stirrup
The structural parallel between the eighth-century loop of iron and the twenty-first-century natural-language interface — both mechanically trivial, both altering the fundamental unit of capability, both demanding institutional reorganiza…
The Structural Impossibility of Full Presence
The book's concluding diagnosis — that under current technological, cultural, and economic conditions, genuine domestic presence has become structurally impossible for the builder population, and will not be restored through individual eff…
Work's Intimacy
Gregg's term for the emotional closeness between workers and their professional roles — a bond that sustains but also colonizes, intensified by AI tools that make the work feel like a responsive partner.