Almost everything I've written seems wrong now
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Almost everything I've written seems wrong now
Yesterday I was talking to a Google recruiter and he was saying how as a big corporate it is difficult to change things or do new stuff. I frequently forget that about Google as I still have an image of it as a startup resulting from reading
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 back in 2015. That book inspi... See more
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
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This whole painful irony is especially striking in the case of email, that ingenious twentieth-century invention whereby any random person on the planet can pester you, at any time they like, and at almost no cost to themselves, by means of a digital window that sits inches from your nose, or in your pocket, throughout your working day, and often o
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
I realized something which is fundamentally true of a lot of day jobs. Nothing I did at the job mattered, in the long run. No matter how much I spun, nothing about my situation ever changed. I worked my week, got to the end of it, and had nothing to show. The next week there would be more emails and more tickets, exactly like the week before. The w... See more