Jul 31, 2021

How To Read My Writing

If you want to keep up with my writing on general topics (economics, politics, etc.) you might take a look at stoweboyd.com. If you are interested in Work Futures, look…

Work Futures

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How To Read My Writing

If you want to keep up with my writing on general topics (economics, politics, etc.) you might take a look at stoweboyd.com.

If you are interested in Work Futures, look…

Jun 6, 2021

Minimal Viable Processes

Most processes are built to hit the brakes… —

Future Of Work

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Minimal Viable Processes

Most processes are built to hit the brakes…

Published in Work Futures

·May 21, 2021

Over at Work Futures on Substack…

Where I do all my real writing these days… — Recently posted: 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…

The Future Of Work

2 min read

May 13, 2021

A Reminder: Now Posting On Substack

Those who are interested in my recent writings should check out workfutures.substack.com. A lot going on over there, and nothing here.

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A Reminder: Now Posting On Substack

Those who are interested in my recent writings should check out workfutures.substack.com. A lot going on over there, and nothing here.

Apr 27, 2021

Companies are Private Governments

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…

Basecamp

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Published in GigaOm

·Apr 2, 2021

Work Week | How Not To Connect

| Slack Steps In It | Staffbase Raises $145M | Airtable Valued at $5.7B | Box on the Block | CoScreen Launches | — ::: 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. […] Connect DMs mean that, in theory…

Slack

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Published in GigaOm

·Mar 18, 2021

Circling Back To Dropbox Spaces

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. …

Dropbox

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Published in GigaOm

·Mar 5, 2021

Work Week | Ahren’s Challenge

| 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 ::: Linkedin Marketplaces Microsoft’s New Gig: A LinkedIn Freelancer Market…

Microsoft Viva

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Published in GigaOm

·Mar 1, 2021

Work Week | Focus and Asynchronous Communication

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: …

Focus

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