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Why not hire part-time developers?
"Part-time employees don’t work. Even working remotely should be avoided, because misalignment can creep in whenever colleagues aren’t together full-time, in the same place, every day. If you’re deciding whether to bring someone on board, the decision is binary. Ken Kesey was right: you’re either on the bus or off the bus."
Peter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes—train and sprint, then rest and reassess.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
As a strong proponent for the diversification of work (see here with Zine), building a Career Portfolio is not just incredibly fulfilling, but ultimately job-proofing. By building relationships and reputation outside the walls of a single office, fractional work can be a win-win. Employers just have to tap the upside for themselves... more satisfie... See more
Victoria Buchanan • Vol.17: Victoria Buchanan: Surrealism, World Saving Luxury + Fractional Work
Employers may want people to work for them full time, but employees left to their own devices and in a more competitive market will actually prefer to work among multiple communities.
Joey DeBruin • Communities Aren’t Buckets -- They’re Clouds
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Recognition of the scale of these disruptions has led people like Google cofounder Larry Page to advocate a more radical proposition: let’s move to a four-day work week or have multiple people “share” the same job. In one version of this proposal, a single full-time job could be split into several part-time jobs, sharing the increasingly scarce res
... See moreKai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
In the summer of 2007, the software company 37signals (now called Basecamp) launched an experiment: They shortened their workweek from five days to four. Their employees seemed to accomplish the same amount of work with one less day, so they made this change permanent: Every year, from May through October, 37signals employees work only Monday to Th
... See moreCal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Developer dropout is real
Nnamdi Iregbulem • Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers
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