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November 27

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11 days ago

Neil Gaiman’s Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet

Earlier this week, Neil Gaiman was interviewed on Icelandic television. Around the twenty-five mi...

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November 10

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28 days ago

Should This Meeting Have Been an Email?

In the context of knowledge work there are two primary ways to communicate. The first is synchron...

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October 25

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about 1 month ago

The Quiet Workflow Revolution

Starting a few years ago, ads for a web-based software start-up called Monday.com began to show u...

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October 17

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about 2 months ago

On Disruption and Distraction

Disruption and disorder have always stalked the human condition. This reality sometimes plays out...

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September 29

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2 months ago

On Tire Pressure and Productivity

The other day the low tire pressure indicator came on in my car. I didn’t see an obvious flat, so...

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September 4

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3 months ago

On Tools and the Aesthetics of Work

In the summer of 2022, an engineer named Keegan McNamara, who was at the time working for a fundr...

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August 26

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3 months ago

We Don’t Need a New Twitter

In July, Meta announced Threads, a new social media service that was obviously designed to steal ...

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August 6

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4 months ago

Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek

Within my particular subfield of theoretical computer science there’s perhaps no individual more ...

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June 20

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6 months ago

When Work Didn’t Follow You Home

In a recent article written for Slate, journalist Dan Kois recounts the shock his younger coworke...

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June 13

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6 months ago

On the Slow Productivity of John Wick

I found myself recently, as one does, watching the mini-documentary featurettes included on the D...

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