future of work
Her ideas channel the structural frustration of the bullshit-jobs left while holding on to the notion that work can be more than a scam or a chore. It grants permission to groan about bad, unfulfilling work without conceding that all work is always bad.
Martin Dolan • Clocked Out
the absurdity of having a job under capitalism.
Martin Dolan • Clocked Out
she’s something unglamorously in-between: a worker doing the best she can to not lose track of the positive potential—personally and collectively—in something as mundane as earning a wage.
Martin Dolan • Clocked Out
even if you spend your evenings trying to change the world, what do you tell yourself to make it through your shift?
Martin Dolan • Clocked Out
Even David Graeber, the north star of political intellectuals for so many of my peers, jumped into the fray. Expanded from a viral essay, his 2018 book Bullshit Jobs collects interviews with hundreds of people who describe what they do as pointless. From these conversations, Graeber realized that the few jobs today that are tangibly useful—say,... See more
Martin Dolan • Clocked Out
the function of your professional life is to find the most natural structure that allows you to turn the things you do as naturally as breathing or walking into compounding capital and joy over decades
this, necessarily, requires rotating quickly out of things that aren't it
Will Manidisx.comDo this once, and you’ve got a learning experience. Do it twice, and you’ve got comparison data. Do it three times, and you’ve got the beginnings of a portfolio. Do it five times, and you understand more about how businesses actually work than most agency strategists will learn in a decade.
Zoe Scaman • So You Want to Be a Strategist
The path of “get into a top firm, learn the craft, exit into something interesting” is narrower than it’s ever been.
Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is eating the bottom of the value chain. The tasks that used to be given to juniors - desk research, competitive audits, first-draft decks, trend reports - are increasingly being done by tools. Not... See more
Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is eating the bottom of the value chain. The tasks that used to be given to juniors - desk research, competitive audits, first-draft decks, trend reports - are increasingly being done by tools. Not... See more
Zoe Scaman • So You Want to Be a Strategist
Increasingly, the most compelling work is multidisciplinary. Mood boards, typographic explorations, decks, writing, visual references, and cultural points of view all matter.