Wanted: Human (m/f/d)
Real job ads. Real job boards. Real LinkedIn feeds. For the position of "Human (m/f/d)."
The format is instantly familiar — title, qualifications, salary. But the content breaks every expectation. No skills required. No experience necessary. The job description: be yourself.
That friction is the experiment.
The hypothesis
If you place something deeply human inside a format designed to reduce people to skill sets, the mismatch will stop them mid-scroll — and force a question: what do we actually value in each other?
The mechanism
Your brain has a schema for "job posting." Title, requirements, compensation, apply now. When the format is perfectly familiar but the content violates the schema, your brain can't scroll past it — it has to resolve the mismatch.
That's pattern interruption. It's the same principle behind the most effective guerrilla campaigns: hijack a familiar format, subvert its meaning, and let the tension do the work.
We're not selling anything. We're placing a mirror inside the machine — and seeing who looks.
Example postings
These are starting points — not the final list. We're actively looking for new ones.
Human (m/f/d)
Full-time. Permanent. Salary: a life worth living. Your only task: show up as yourself. No KPIs. No quarterly reviews. No "culture fit" — you are the culture.
Human in Training (m/f/d)
Entry-level position. You don't need to know what you're doing yet. Nobody does. The training is lifelong and the curriculum is: figure out who you are when nobody's watching.
Human in Residence (m/f/d)
A residency for being. No deliverables. No output. Your job is to exist in a space, be present, and see what happens when someone is simply allowed to be.
Chief Human Officer (m/f/d)
Executive role. Reports to: nobody. Responsible for reminding an entire organization that it's made of people, not resources.
The experiment
We post these on real platforms — job boards, LinkedIn, wherever people scroll past hundreds of listings that reduce humans to skill sets and salary bands.
Then we watch: who stops? Who applies? Who shares it? Who gets angry? Who tears up? What conversations does it start that wouldn't have happened otherwise?
The provocation is the experiment. But the bigger version is real too: partnering with organizations or sponsors who actually fund a "Human" position. Paying someone to just be — and documenting what happens.
Open questions
- How do we frame it so it provokes without crushing hope?
- What platforms will let us post this — and what happens when they don't?
- What does a Human CV look like?
- Can the provocation lead to something real — a funded position, a residency, a new way of thinking about work?
Get involved
This experiment gets better with more people thinking about it:
- Job platforms willing to list something unusual
- HR leaders who want to run this inside their organization and see what happens
- Recruiters who want to provoke their own industry
- UBI organizations or sponsors interested in actually funding a "Human" position
- Anyone with ideas for new postings, new formats, or new places to put them