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On Work Futures
Minimum Viable Office Is getting people back in the office just a boomer power play?
Minimal Viable Processes Most processes are built to hit the brakes, not the accelerator.
Yes, Your Boss Is A Psychopath 4% or more of senior executives are stone cold psychopaths. …
Where I do all my real writing these days…
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The Ideal Worker Is All Work, All The Time
Is ‘Love Your Work’ Just Propaganda?
You may be among the many who have found themselves working longer hours during the pandemic than before. In fact, those working from home in the US increased their workday by 40%, about…
And Basecamp has just slipped into Autocracy
The philospher Elizabeth Anderson is responsible for the concept that businesses run as ‘private governments’, lacking democratic principles that we expect in our ‘public governments’, made up of people we elect to office and the laws and policies we enact through them. In her book, Private Government: How Employers Rule…
| Slack Steps In It | Staffbase Raises $145M | Airtable Valued at $5.7B | Box on the Block | CoScreen Launches |
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In Slack is becoming a full messaging app, David Pierce breathlessly wrote about Slack’s allowing direct messaging across the ecosystem of users:
It’s [texting] the highest, most elusive rung of the business communication ladder, and it’s exactly what Slack wants to replace.
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Connect DMs mean that, in theory…
How is the beta test proceeding?
In November 2020, I wrote about the early beta for Dropbox Spaces in First Look | The New Dropbox Spaces, where I did not have access to the beta but just descriptive materials that Dropbox provided. …
| LinkedIn Marketplaces | Virtual Events Are Hot: Hopin and Hubilo | Asynch Video: Weet | Microsoft Viva |
Quote of the Moment
It is a huge misunderstanding that the only alternative to planning is aimless messing around. The challenge is to structure one’s workflow in a way that insight and new ideas can become the driving forces that push us forward.
| Sönke Ahrens
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Linkedin Marketplaces
The pandemic is leading people away from endless video meetings
I came upon Complish a few months ago and thought I might fool with it before writing it up. However, my time is so limited these days I haven’t had a chance. But I want to draw attention to the founders’ motivation to building a content-centric, asynchronous work management tool:
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