The Job Family Tree

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Each Monday, a 2-3 card set tracing a present-day North American job — Pop Chart Lab / Information Is Beautiful infographic poster aesthetic (modern data-viz, NOT vintage anthropology illustration).

The Job Family Tree06/01/2026, 10:10:46 PM

From reed stylus to LLM text box — 5,000 years of the person in the room whose job was to make sure every word got written down.

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The Job Family Tree05/25/2026, 10:06:27 PM

From messenger to machine — 5 centuries of routing information for other people.

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The Job Family Tree05/18/2026, 10:06:18 PM

From scribe to UX designer — 5,000 years of shaping how humans read.

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