💬📚 Written in ‘63 - he died in ‘69 - book finally published in ‘80 .. so arguably he knew nought of our world today …
And yet …
💬📚Lovely. Captures the mustiness of some of my favourite bookstores over the years.
💬 This 📚 is seven years old ….
If you haven’t read 🔗📚 Ollie Henderson’s Future Work/Life you should. Excellent.
This particular quote reminds me of something that Jason Fried wrote in one of his books ..
New technologies tend to imitate the old until people figure out what they’re really meant to do. Early websites were brochures. Early cars looked like horse-drawn carriages. Early TV shows were radio shows with pictures.
💬 Jason Fried
So too work. We ‘broke’ work about 5 years ago - but slowly people (Corporates) are ‘fixing it’ (As in making us all go back to our old ways.) This is because they are still looking at work through the lens of the brochure/horseless carriage. It will be a while before we break it again - BUT - it will be broken but only once we have truly unpacked how the new world of work works.
I’ve got ideas. I’ve got people. I’m excited for the future.
Currently reading: Pattern Breakers by Mike Maples Jr 📚
I don’t usually post about books I am reading, but want to see how the change that @manton made to Micro Blog works.
Not mine, but it was so lovely I wanted to drop it in here, so that as ‘link rot’ continues - I will at least have it here. Who knows, you might already know it, it seems to have been …
… now added to my ‘want to’ list (Leaving by Roxana Robinson)
… but separately the piece by Lefsetz is archived into my Readwise … lest I forget.
Gorgeous.
Thrutopian Futures anyone?
Currently reading: 📚The Loop by Jacob Ward