I’m looking forward to receiving Atlassian’s study a dozen times today from people mad about the mandatory two days in the office.
They know, right...barbers? They can tell while cutting your hair whether you spend much time on it? It was when the guy pulled out the third different brush while frying my scalp underneath the blow dryer that I felt like saying to him "You know this is the only time for the next three months my hair is going to see any instrument other than my fingers, right?"
Michelangelo hid from the Medicis.
In a tiny room beneath...... the Medici Chapels.
I was kind of disappointed to find it wasn't already noted in the Real Life examples of the Right Under Their Noses trope, https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RightUnderTheirNoses
Part 2 of a response to the McKinsey developer productivity idea
I predict this article being very useful to me by the end of the year in order to fend off the McKinsey thing being applied to me
This fairly closely aligns with why I am having so much trouble using micro.blog, a service I have been paying for since the Kickstarter. Using it just doesn't align with my read of the idea of owning my own words (I mean, I guess content is the right term but it has such a gross meaning in our degraded, hustle-ised culture). When I think about ownership, I think of having control of it. But obviously when I put those words on someone else's service, I have ceded control. Sure, Manton seems like a nice guy. So does @shlee@aus.social. Nevertheless, I am giving them a bit of me every time I post to their databases.
Looks at list of last books read. Hmmm
All of which are at least on their fourth go around. So comfort reading and competence porn.
Well, at least it got me out of my rut or not reading at all.
An understated call to action to reject the lure of "the global town square"; not the same stridency as Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" themed articles, but the same basic point.