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341 postsHow Our Need For Attention Online Drives Us Crazy
When I started writing this newsletter, I did it because I had to write. If I don’t write, I
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We Must Fight The Disrespectful Devaluation of the Worker
Today I had an article from July that I had totally missed, in which an economist called “Austan Goolsbee” tells
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Microsoft's Meaningless Remote Work Study - And The Anti-Work Pro-Office Debate
I was on vacation last week, and nevertheless, everybody wanted to send me this Nature study of Microsoft and remote
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Your Company Is Not Your Friend, Your Family, Or Your Community
As is too often the case, The Times has inspired me with another article - this time about the fact
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Remote Work Isn't The End Of Going Outside
One of the more annoying tropes of the remote debate is that there are two choices - entirely remote, or
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Remote Work Has Inequality Problems, But That Doesn't Make The Office Superior
The Times, as usual, is fighting the bold fight against remote work, this time framing remote work as something that
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Remote Work Shows Us How Dependent We've Become On Offices To Live Our Lives
Despite me writing a newsletter about it on Friday, what feels like 30 people have now sent me the New
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The Pro-Office "Silent Majority" Is A Lie, And The Powerful Want Remote Work To End
Honk! Honk! Pull over, loyal readers. Pull way over. Keep going. More. To tell you the truth, you better clear
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I Don't Want To Go To Work In The Metaverse
Today Facebook has announced Workrooms, a VR-based working space that you access using an Oculus Quest headset. Zuckerberg’s extended
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Yes, You Can Make Meaningful Relationships Online
One of the classic anti-remote defenses is that remote work doesn’t allow you to make deep and meaningful relationships
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The Two-Jobby Problem
Despite having written about the subject last week, I am now returning to the idea of two full-time jobs at
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