work

The higher you go in an organization, the more your suggestions become interpreted as orders.

Being smart does not mean being useful. Or employable.

You ever think about how bad we had to fuck up to create a world where robots taking all the jobs is somehow a bad thing.

My children's school is missing certain subjects due to lack of teachers, the roads are full of potholes, the sidewalks littered with trash, buildings are gray and ugly and decrepit, people on the streets need food and shelter and care, the frigging planet is cooking and desperately in need of new kinds of housing, heating, transportation, entertainment—wherever you look there's work to be done; real, productive, meaningful, community-building work; and there are no jobs!! What's up with that? 1% of my country has as much money as the entire bottom 50% and no one's paying for work!! They just sit on the cash like dragons atop a pile of gold!! Best system my ass.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

When an employer interviews a prospective candidate, the employer typically forms a quick first impression and spends the rest of the interview seeking information that supports it.

Lawrence Katz, an economist at Harvard, has a term for this: “retrospective wait unemployment,” or “looking for the job you used to have.”

“It’s not a skill mismatch, but an identity mismatch,” he said. “It’s not that they couldn’t become a health worker, it’s that people have backward views of what their identity is.

Employers do not normally appoint themselves arbiters of appropriate behavior outside the workplace.

Conway's Law:

Organizations which design systems […] are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

The only reward for good work is more work.