noteworthy wrote:
Francis Fukuyama:
Unlike the electrician who knows his work is good when you flip a switch and the lights go on, the average knowledge worker is caught in a morass of evaluations, budget projections and planning meetings.
Matthew Crawford argues that the ideologists of the knowledge economy have posited a false dichotomy between knowing and doing.
Few things I’ve created have given me nearly as much pleasure as those tangible objects that were hard to fabricate and useful to other people. I put my power tools away a few years ago, and find now that I can’t even give them away, because people are too preoccupied with updating their iPhones.
Bruce Sterling:
Poor folk love their cellphones!
Matthew Crawford:
What exactly have you accomplished at the end of any given day?
Acidus:
I totally need a sign that says "Is it good for the Empire?" in my office.
I have decided to create a new game to make life less boring. At boring meetings, I will only speak in Beck Lyrics.
Inviting 16 people to a meeting is always stupid. Deadlock anyone? Inviting 16 engineers to discuss "the best architecture" is bretarded.
Today I was in a one and a half hour meeting where we discussed colors and stars on a PowerPoint slide.
