Organizations & Culture
Spaceship You: How To Understand Who You Are as a Remote Worker
The following is a guest post from Artur Piszek, founder of Deliberate Internet. He has been a remote worker for the last five years. This October, I will have 5 years of Remote Work experience. For the past 4, I have been sharing the journey with my liveaboard colleague and wife – Maria. We both ... Read more
The best advice on working remotely your boss doesn’t want you to see
During the initial months of the Covid crisis you were bombarded with tips about how to optimize your day while working online and how to be more effective than ever while multi-tasking zoom meetings, slack chats and conference calls. For many, working remotely is unsettling. They start questioning their relationship with work, worry about how ... Read more
Managing Millennials & Other Misinformation On Generations at Work
Over the past few years, many people have asked me what I though about ““how do you manage millennials in the workforce?” This is the kind of question that throws me into a fit of sadness about the modern state of work. The problem is the question itself. A better question would be to start ... Read more
Integrating Chaos: Building Resilient Organizations with Chaos Theory
Our imagination about what happens in the business world has become disconnected with reality and it all starts with an accepted narrative about the unstoppable power of Fredrick Taylor’s ideas The narrative goes like this: Fredrick Taylor introduced managers to analytical methods and tools that helped them to dramatically improve productivity; however these efforts also ... Read more
Questions About The Future Of Work
The US has lost 38 million jobs as of May 23rd, 2020. Some of those may come back. Many will not. Going into 2021, the US will likely have the highest unemployment rate in the last 100 years. I’ve written quite a bit about the fragile labor economy and believe the gaps I’ve written about ... Read more
Matt Mullenweg’s & Automattic’s Five Levels Of Remote Work
Remote work is poorly understood and for good reason. What most people have experienced is merely being “allowed” to work remotely on occasion, having to stay home with someone sick in the family, logging in while traveling or waiting for the cable guy to install internet. While I am a fan of remote working I ... Read more
Hamsternomics: Printing Money, The Economy & Work Beliefs
Essay by Paul Millerd & Ryan Borker Look at this cute little guy: Right now, as citizens of the United States we may become that hamster. Near term, we don’t really have a choice. Long term, we might have a choice. A lot of people have asked us what printing money means. Like, what actually ... Read more
Millenarianism & Pandemic Utopias | Review of Black Mass by John Gray
Millenarianism is is defined as “the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming fundamental transformation of society, after which “all things will be changed”. I ran across this concept in a fascinating book by John Gray called “Black Mass” where he explored how humans have consistently been drawn toward millenarianist ... Read more
Dear Leaders, It’s Time To Wake The F*ck Up
When I was working in consulting there was an unspoken truth. To say it would undermine 75% of the work that these firms do each day. That truth is that most companies will not change without a genuine crisis. Right now, every company finds itself in a crisis. From the supermarkets who are realizing they ... Read more
Rethinking Meetings In A Remote World
In a short podcast episode, Seth Godin makes the argument against using remote work to copy in-person working habits, especially meetings. Meetings give us insight as to who’s up and who’s down. Who’s being honored and who’s being disrespected. We live in a meetings culture. It is very hard to change it even if you’re the boss. ... Read more