Tag: work
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White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now – The Atlantic – “Gloria Mark of UC Irvine has found that workers require an average of 25 minutes to return to their original task after an interruption. By this measure, a 30-minute meeting is, for the typical worker, best thought of as a one-hour detour.” // For 25+…
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9 Questions to Help You Figure Out Why You’re Burned Out – This is concise and good. Yes, and: what to do? How do you determine when you are “too good” of a worker, sacrificing yourself for the good of the company without proper compensation? “Too good” here means that you yield a high profit…
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About my studio – Working from home, artist edition. (1) no commute saves time and means booting up into work is faster and frequent: “there is also an advantage to not having a separate studio outside your home. When I did rent a studio in the past it meant that all my artwork in progress…
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Inside TSMC’s Phoenix, Arizona expansion struggles – Rest of World – Sounds like a shitty place to work! Long hours, sometimes filled with low value work. The TSMC people must think Europeans are insane. In contrast, for the American work-culture, this feels like a “thank the unions” story.
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What junior/senior developers and CTOs need to know about internal developer platforms
This is from last Fall at the SHIFT conference, but it still holds up: Relative to your interests Why Are Pants So Big (Again)? – tl;dr: you can wear comfortable jeans again. // “There’s constancy, I thought, and then there’s becoming a relic of yourself” And: “If you zoom out far enough, all the paroxysms…
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Why We Glorify Overwork and Refuse to Rest – One of the better explanations of what’s probably wrong with me: “It’s the most reliable way to feel a sense of his own worthiness — and to avoid difficult emotions.”
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80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office – Hmm. It seems really hard to tell what the effects of remote working and in-person working are. People just have to make shut up.
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Saying yes, “nudes” vs “naked,” asking tech people non-confrontational questions
Current Status I am on a train going between Paris and Amsterdam, stopping at Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Schipol before going to Amsterdam Central. The train is nice, nicer than a plane to be sure. This is the last of a lot of travel for me – Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, then for vacation, admittedly,…
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🗂 Why the eight-hour workday doesn’t work
> The ideal work-to-break ratio was 52 minutes of work, followed by 17 minutes of rest. qz.com/work/1561…
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🗂 Karl Lagerfeld dead
> “There is no secret to life,” Lagerfeld said. “The only secret is work. Get your act together, and also, perhaps, have a decent life. Don’t drink. Don’t smoke. Don’t take drugs. All that helps.” www.businessoffashion.com/articles/…
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Link: Hey Boss, You Don’t Want Your Employees to Meditate
“Mindfulness might be unhelpful for dealing with difficult assignments at work, but it may be exactly what is called for in other contexts. There is no denying that mindfulness can be beneficial, bringing about calm and acceptance. Once you’ve reached a peak level of acceptance, however, you’re not going to be motivated to work harder.”…
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Link: America’s bias against working moms comes down to one question: Do you value your female employees or not?
Based on a 2013 survey, but still, fucked up: “According to Pew, some 40% of Americans believe it is bad for society if women work, despite the fact that 40% of American households are supported by female breadwinners.” Original source: America’s bias against working moms comes down to one question: Do you value your female…
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Link: Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?
‘between 2011 and 2012, the polling company Gallup conducted the most detailed study ever carried out of how people feel about the thing we spend most of our waking lives doing – our paid work. They found that 13% of people say they are “engaged” in their work – they find it meaningful and look…
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All the taboos about working at home
Working at home, with a family, is a challenge, as this nice overview piece at The Register goes over. You think you’re trading all those interruptions from co-workers talking about the sportsball or just complaining about the daily grind, but you’re actually trading in for a different set of co-workers, your family. And their requests…
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You want people to work as much as possible to push the product and company out of uncertain territory into profitability, right? Wrong. What you will do is push people to the edge of burnout and unhappiness. They’ll eventually leave your company. From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy This is a management point I’ve…
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Work, it’s where you work
The design for Wieden+Kennedy New York moves away from the office-as-playground to put work back at the heart of creative work. Work, it’s where you work
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Anything you want will happen, but sometimes it’s hard for people to see that when they’re in the middle of it. It looks like it’s incredibly complicated. Well, it’s not complicated at all. In fact, it’s so uncomplicated it’s amazing. All it is about is the work. Finally, if you do the work people will…
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