A credential is a receipt, not a title. Against another holder of receipts, it proves only that both paid. I. THE RECEIPT A credential records a transaction: this person paid, in years and effort, and the payment was logged. As evidence of a return on investment it is sound. As a claim on a position…
The Fable Let’s start with a woman named Anna. She’s sixty-two, a retired bookkeeper, living in a modest town. Her apartment faces the main street. From her window, she can see the local hardware store, the shuttered warehouse on the corner, and the gray transformer box that hums with the town’s power supply. Anna drinks…