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All clippings about Work.
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A Services Firm Makes a Great Startup The counter-camp steel-man against "productise everything". Services can be the destination, not a stepping stone to a product business. Feral Free Agents We've gotten so used to identifying ourselves with jobs that we've forgotten what it's like to just be ourselves. Devote Yourself to the Cause of Your Life Enjoy the process of the work, not just the outcome. Flounder Mode Building a meaningful life by following interests with joy, not by chasing traditional success or torturing yourself into greatness. How the Workforce Learns A company will only train and advocate for you as long as it's good for them. Learning on your own time earns your freedom, not more value for your employer. Let Go of the Learning Baggage The organizational-culture side of How the Workforce Learns. Companies push learning (and gym, sleep, rest) into unpaid hours, then wonder why nobody grows. Redefining Success, Money, and Belonging The Pathless Path thesis in one line. The shared ethic of everyone on it: "a sense of possibility and opportunity and optimism." Related: The Pathless Path, the… The Death of the Corporate Job Direct sibling of the corporate-work thread (Corporate work is a bad deal, Developer Hegemony notes). The Twilight of the Chatbots With AI, domain experts can now build their own tools. If my value is connecting people to digital tools, and AI can do that, what is my value?