Faking It, Making It, And The Lie of the Meritocracy
Today, Albert Burneko of Defector had an excellent piece about media startup fraud Ozy and the larger ecosystem of pontificators
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The Silicon Valley Victimization Complex
The ongoing misery of tech's rich and successful.
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"Flexibility" Is The New Buzzword Companies Will Use To Try and Stop You Working From Home
The new buzzword for the future of work is as confusing as it is ripe for abuse.
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The New Anti-Remote Propaganda Wants To Gaslight You Back To The Office
They can't prove that remote work is bad for productivity - so it's time to start scaring workers.
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The Internet of Grift
NFTs are an even more insidious form of grift than regular crypto products.
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Bosses and Managers Want A Hybrid Office So They Can Feel Important Again
Otherwise, you might ask what they do all day.
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Hot Takes and The New Portable Intellectualism
A Machine Built On Skim-Reading and Telling Us What We Want To Hear
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What We Actually Want Out Of Management
We need management that manages from the perspective of the worker, and leaders that respect and appreciate labor itself.
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On Commutes, Leaving The House, And Addressing Remote Work's Problems
How the framing of our "lost commutes" and "soft work" is being used to push back against remote work - and the actual negatives of working from home.
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How Our Need For Attention Online Drives Us Crazy
When I started writing this newsletter, I did it because I had to write. If I don’t write, I
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We Must Fight The Disrespectful Devaluation of the Worker
Today I had an article from July that I had totally missed, in which an economist called “Austan Goolsbee” tells
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