corporate culture
Brilliant Tronc parody video…or is it? Paid Members Public
This is a brilliant parody video: Some absolute gems in there: > It’s about meeting in the middle. About having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture and then evolving and changing and that’s really the fun part. That’s exciting. So many words to say nothing
The nature of the Reddit beast Paid Members Public
What actually is Reddit?, asks Samantha Allen, writing for The Daily Beast: Reddit is not so much the generic front page of the Internet as it is its spacious, tricked-out man cave: a lot of people can fit inside, but only some people feel comfortable hanging out there. And she
Corporate trust is the first victim of redundancy Paid Members Public
John Robinson on laying off journalists [http://johnlrobinson.com/2015/04/laying-off-journalists/]: > In the ensuing days, it was clear that a bond between the company and the employee was broken. The deal had been this: They would work hard, do good work, miss family dinners, have coworkers critique their work,
MySpace: strangled by the corporate cord Paid Members Public
Corporate bureaucracy kills the network [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify?utm_source=Stay+In+Touch&utm_campaign=2a23cf2a14-Newsletter21_19March15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b8bd4077e5-2a23cf2a14-161471409] , says former MySpace VP, Sean Percival: > “The analogy I use is like you were the half-time [basketball] coach, and I
Meaning - Bob Doak: the Gore cult of making money - and having fun Paid Members Public
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/bob-doak.jpg] Bob Doak [http://2014.meaningconference.co.uk/#speakers/bob-doak] works for WL Gore & Associates – a
Every corporate meeting ever Paid Members Public
Weird Al, again, from his new album, Mandatory Fun [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&field-keywords=mandatory%20fun&linkCode=ur2&sprefix=manda%2Caps%2C182&tag=omhb-21&url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music]
Nightmares of tech past Paid Members Public
Every time I think a proper job would be nice again… > I remember a grey slab I was issued by the tech quartermasters when I started my last proper job, packed with software designed to process ideas and thoughts into grey, bullet-pointed entropy. Then I was given a “smart” phone
Stop working so damn hard Paid Members Public
You shouldn’t put in so many hours working [http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/01/27/140127ta_talk_surowiecki]. Why? > The perplexing thing about the cult of overwork is that, as we’ve known for a while, long hours diminish both productivity and quality. Among industrial workers, overtime
