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Fabio Cecin
Feb 28, 2015, 8:31:18 AM2/28/15
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Will the flex week evolve into the four-day work week?
"When there’s less time to work, you waste less time. — Jason Fried"
https://medium.com/the-future-of-work-and-business/will-the-flex-week-evolve-into-the-four-day-work-week-4aaa923045c6
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Yes to the Dress?
https://medium.com/message/yes-to-the-dress-5ec06c06aca4
"
(...)
The reason BuzzFeed exists—the actual, real reason—was to capture
Internet ridiculousness and folly in its fullness. Since being founded
in 2006 to wide ridicule it has become a platform company, with a very
large technical team, a huge editorial team, a video team, a built-in
ad agency, lots of middle management, tons of journalists, and big
piles of money from California.
What I saw, as I looked through the voluminous BuzzFeed coverage of
the dress, is an organization at the peak of a craft they’ve been
honing since 2006. They are masters of the form they pioneered. If you
think that’s bullshit, that’s fine—I think most things are bullshit
too. But they didn’t just serendipitously figure out that blue dress.
They created an organization that could identify that blue dress,
document it, and capture the traffic. And the way they got those 25
million impressions, as far as I can tell from years of listening to
their people, reading their website, writing about them, and not
working or writing for them, was something like: **** >>>> Build a
happy-enough workplace where people could screw around and experiment
with what works and doesn’t, and pay everyone some money. <<<< *****
(...)
You have to build it over time with lots of nerds of all sort and make
people not hate their lives along the way. Then you need to see which
parts work, and do them over and over again. It takes years.
"
...
I still don't agree with the base frame of, apparently, every single
piece of "business" and "work" writing. "You" (the "business person")
have to do nothing. "You" have not to "build it", neither "over time"
nor instantly. This "you do this" and "you do that" when used in terms
of "building" human "organizations" means that as a person you are
manipulating people like little LEGO people. This is fundamentally bad
thinking induced by fundamentally broken language and thought.
To me the only valid use of the relationship of servitude
("employment") is as a form of legal compliance. If you think in its
terms, instead of just using it, you're not addressing the
fundamental, "cultural" problem. (as in the actual culture you're in,
not the fake "culture" that is crafted to control people that are
emotionally and psychologically assimilated into a profit-making
machine -- be it "hierarchical" or a more hip variant).
Fabio
"When there’s less time to work, you waste less time. — Jason Fried"
https://medium.com/the-future-of-work-and-business/will-the-flex-week-evolve-into-the-four-day-work-week-4aaa923045c6
...
Yes to the Dress?
https://medium.com/message/yes-to-the-dress-5ec06c06aca4
"
(...)
The reason BuzzFeed exists—the actual, real reason—was to capture
Internet ridiculousness and folly in its fullness. Since being founded
in 2006 to wide ridicule it has become a platform company, with a very
large technical team, a huge editorial team, a video team, a built-in
ad agency, lots of middle management, tons of journalists, and big
piles of money from California.
What I saw, as I looked through the voluminous BuzzFeed coverage of
the dress, is an organization at the peak of a craft they’ve been
honing since 2006. They are masters of the form they pioneered. If you
think that’s bullshit, that’s fine—I think most things are bullshit
too. But they didn’t just serendipitously figure out that blue dress.
They created an organization that could identify that blue dress,
document it, and capture the traffic. And the way they got those 25
million impressions, as far as I can tell from years of listening to
their people, reading their website, writing about them, and not
working or writing for them, was something like: **** >>>> Build a
happy-enough workplace where people could screw around and experiment
with what works and doesn’t, and pay everyone some money. <<<< *****
(...)
You have to build it over time with lots of nerds of all sort and make
people not hate their lives along the way. Then you need to see which
parts work, and do them over and over again. It takes years.
"
...
I still don't agree with the base frame of, apparently, every single
piece of "business" and "work" writing. "You" (the "business person")
have to do nothing. "You" have not to "build it", neither "over time"
nor instantly. This "you do this" and "you do that" when used in terms
of "building" human "organizations" means that as a person you are
manipulating people like little LEGO people. This is fundamentally bad
thinking induced by fundamentally broken language and thought.
To me the only valid use of the relationship of servitude
("employment") is as a form of legal compliance. If you think in its
terms, instead of just using it, you're not addressing the
fundamental, "cultural" problem. (as in the actual culture you're in,
not the fake "culture" that is crafted to control people that are
emotionally and psychologically assimilated into a profit-making
machine -- be it "hierarchical" or a more hip variant).
Fabio
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