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So to have your precious days consumed by purposeless labor, mind-numbing tasks, and the commercialization of your thoughts and creativity, for tasks better suited for machines is an affront to the universe.
Aaron Lawson • A Knowledge Worker’s Manifesto — knowledge work studio
How much of our work exists because we ‘think’ we have to do it?
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
Yatú: Head of Fiction is Norm. Head of Reality is me.
(USB club job titles the co-founders gave themselves)

When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic.
We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of brand or story or a reflection of team cohesion, because investing on “vibes” or “look” or “mood” is very frowned upon. Even using it as a data point is beaten out of us._... See more
Katherine Boylex.comPeople will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”