The whole concept of knowledge workers rests on the assertion that there are other workers who do not truck with knowledge. But that assertion is bullshit. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/knowledge-workers
I’m trying to come up with a more cynical and violently disparaging take on both the work of living human beings and the performance management process itself, and coming up short. https://lattice.com/blog/leading-the-way-in-responsible-ai-employment
I can’t find the page now, but there’s a moment in Menewood when Hild’s people look to her, expecting her to say she will be king, and she returns that look with something like, “No, no, all kings die! All kings are killed by men who are or want to be kings!” https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/menewood
“She suspected that there was something wrong with a social system in which time-saving devices didn’t save time for anybody but the owners.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/laborsaving
If you must write up your organization’s values, you should do it in the form of a fable not a bulleted list.
Getting strong Diana Hunter vibes from all this “Apple intelligence” nonsense. https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/gnomon
Too much of our technology tries to get us to forget that we are bodies. I’m convinced that that forgetting does real damage to our spirits and intellects. We have to claw back spaces where we can be whole.
Semi-regular reminder that most of your video calls could be (probably ought to be) phone calls. No AI listening in but also you don’t have to be still, or at your desk, or forced into the 2D space that video calls demand of you. You can talk to people in other places and still be a body.