You are not a machine that receives tasks
September 17, 2025
Folks who study meaning at work have three buckets. We love a good three-bucket framework. Let’s go.
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If you’re not reading this email, you’re fired
September 3, 2025
The first and easiest gut check in terms of whether your workplace surveillance is helpful or harmful is this.
I hope they’re paying you enough for this
August 20, 2025
The shift in this model is that we’re no longer talking about a cofounder or a bestie or work spouse.
None of this is real and it doesn’t matter
August 6, 2025
The difference between the theater of work and actual work.
How did they not know?
July 23, 2025
We’re still in the early days, this is still mostly anecdotes, but the anecdotes are multiplying fast. And they’re haunting.
The narrowest definition of ambition
July 9, 2025
The people who tout this model of ambition have a whole cinematic universe of heroes and villains and moral dramas and cautionary tales.
Busy is not a personality
June 25, 2025
What would you do if you had a week to just clear out backlog?
Take a chance on me
June 11, 2025
The opportunities that anyone could take, but no one is taking.
Bring your slop to work day
May 28, 2025
It’s definitely giving some low-key asbestos vibes.
The switching costs aren’t that high
May 14, 2025
Is this what it means to work with a vendor these days?
20k of headache
April 30, 2025
If one more exec pastes one more link about workplace dips in productivity, the managers are going lose it.
The poser manifesto
April 16, 2025
We talk with people building amazing things all the time, from founders to interns, and none of them sound like this.
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