Work & careers
- More important than beanbags and coffee machines (though they are nice), are how employers recognise the needs for work-life balance, the importance of time for child-rearing and family life, and the ability of workers to easily move between the spaces of their lives. Employers should be asking how they fit into the ecology of everyday rhythms of t... See more
from The Changing Workplace after COVID.
Brian Wiesner added 3mo ago
- It made me start to wonder just how much I’d been affected by the bubble of prosaic routine in the US, feeling the only path to success was rigidly linear. This was a gentle reminder that there were no straight lines on the path to success. Success became a universe of possibilities. Their energy imbued my world with new, limitless horizons.
Life c... See morefrom Riding in Cars with Strangers
Brian Wiesner added 4mo ago
- There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that technological pursuits and natural pursuits, are at odds. An example:
“The longer you spend in tech, the stronger the urge to buy a farm and never touch a computer again in your life”from Careful Technology by Simon Sarris
Brian Wiesner added 4mo ago
Brian Wiesner added 4mo ago
Takeaways from Jerry Seinfeld on Tim Ferriss:
To survive in comedy you have to be a writer
“As any writer can tell you it’s 95% re-write”
“I think I could solve just about anyone’s life, I don’t care what you do, with weight training and transcendental meditation” Jerry Seinfeld
“If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the las
Brian Wiesner added 5mo ago
- But if you think about your career from the perspective of which skills you have developed and where else they might be applicable, you’ll realize that opportunities are near-infinite . Journalists can become investors. Corporate executives can become authors. Even in the case of the most rigid disciplines such as law and medicine, nothing is stopp... See more
from No Rules. by Jack Raines
Brian Wiesner added 5mo ago
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