“For all the grandiose talk about The Light Of Consciousness and The Future Of
Humanity that has come out of Silicon Valley during its ascent, what it has
delivered has mostly been spectacularly useless, lifeless, and anti-human. In
this sense, it reflects its owners perfectly.”
David Roth ,
Everything Is Silicon Valley Now
(Defector November 14, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/21/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Strategy and product visions only go so far. And success in those areas has
limited impact on real company culture. What makes working at a company
fulfilling is actually quite simple. You have to align the goals of your
organization with the health and stability of the employees.”
“Roosevelt and his advisers never had a master plan. Rather, in the
administration’s first 100 days, they implemented a flurry of laws and
regulations. If those programs worked, they remained. If they didn’t, they
were dropped, to be replaced by others.”
Lizabeth Cohen ,
The Lessons of the Great Depression
(The Atlantic May 2020 )
posted 3/25/2021 8:53pm ∞
“The researchers also looked specifically at the 2008 economic collapse and
estimate that a $1 minimum wage increase could have prevented over 13,000
suicides if previous trends held for this period.”
posted 1/12/2020 7:52pm ∞
“Ironically, the Times reports that Crossover’s own employees so resented the
company’s intrusive monitoring of them (as they created and sold intrusive
monitoring tools) that Crossover hemorrhaged employees and struggled to hire
replacements. Eventually, Crossover had to turn off its most intrusive features
so that it could keep the employees needed to make and sell its bossware
product.”
posted 12/17/2022 3:19pm ∞