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Slack and the Imaginary Economy.
Anne Helen Petersen once memorably described this as "LARPing your job"—performing a theatrical version of productivity. Workers engage in elaborate displays of "being at work": staying visible on Slack, responding to emails at all hours, and maintaining a digital presence that signals industriousness. The tools have evolved—from software that moni... See more
AI Phobia Is Just Fear That ‘Easier’ Equals ‘Cheating’
Efficiency is generally held to be a universal goal for any economy—unless the economy happens to traffic in ideas. If ideas were fully liberated, then entrepreneurs wouldn’t be able to profit from their innovations, because their competitors would immediately adopt them. And so where innovation is concerned, we have deliberately built inefficient
... See moreSteven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Slow productivity is just one response among many to a much bigger problem: The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
What is the future of business when technology-enabled networks and marketplaces let people choose when and how much they want to work?
Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?
Yet for some reason, we as a society have collectively decided it’s better to have millions of human beings spending years of their lives pretending to type into spreadsheets or preparing mind maps for PR meetings than freeing them to knit sweaters, play with their dogs, start a garage band, experiment with new recipes, or sit in cafés ... See more