The media business keeps trying to ruin Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, and they keep prospering. On the loony Substack controversy, and the paradox of moral panic in media.
Matt Taibbi
I'm a fan of Substack - but it looks like they might be hitting some issues as they rush to attract famous writers to the platform - and paying them. On the outside it looks good that famous writers …
Over on the podcast and in the newsletter - oh and in the People First network, I have been ruminating about remote work.
Specifically about work visas and …
I'm kind of over people complaining about how LinkedIN sucks because ... or Facebook users are ... or Instagram Photos are ....
Social Media channels are like TV channels. If you don’t like them …
I promise, Manton, Daniel and I did not coordinate this - I think sometimes synchronicity just happens.
In last weeks newsletter I asked the question
"Why Do You Work?" …
For decades, the business world has embraced worker empowerment. But recently a countermovement—workforce optimization—has been on the rise. It treats labor as a commodity and seeks to cut it to a …
”I thought back to the day I decided to go to law school. It was a warm spring day. May 4, 1970. I was a freshman at Oberlin College. A few days earlier, President Richard Nixon had expanded the …
Or as Cal puts it …
"Slack is the Right Tool for the Wrong Way to Work."
”The future of office work won’t be found in continuing to reduce the friction involved in messaging but, instead, in …
People ... Process and THEN Technology ... but as usual the world at large is ignoring the advice - and jumping straight into an app without much thought ... let me explain.
If you are a celeb - …
A response to a recent newsletter. Specifically one where I explored Work Location. (You might want to click in and have a read to get the context.)
Sometimes people have a lot to say, but they …