šĀ On time for your weekend: a round-up ofĀ this weekās remarkable storiesĀ at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design, and #culture.
š Reading
Labors of Love:
While automation is purportedly intended to free people from monotonous labor, it may indeed have the opposite effect [..] To truly guard ourselves against automation, perhaps the way forward is not to continually remake ourselves to meet the demands of the economy ā and suffer as āfailuresā if we prove unable or unwilling to do so ā but to reconnect with the work that truly sustains us.
š āReal Life
Disruption at Work: Itās More than just WFH
While most of us assume corporations (e.g., big tech) as existing today, the idea of a corporation was new post-war. Not simply the legal definition, but the very nature of how work was done. Perhaps surprising, but the answer to future of work was once: āThe Corporationā [..] The question is not āwork remotelyā, but what is the very structure of getting things done?
š§ Back to First PrinciplesāSteven Sinofsky
Entrepreneurship is contagious:
I suspect entrepreneurship is only ācontagiousā to those who normally wouldnāt consider it. Maybe, for most people, starting a new business is literally unthinkable, in the sense that they just donāt think of doing it. But being around someone who has done it plants the seed in your mind that itās a possibility, something you really could do [..] For them, exposure has a measurable positive effect.
š¤·āāļø Seeing is believing is seeingāMatt Clancy
š§ Listening
Emerging Technologies and Chinaās Crackdown on Tech:
We are slowly experiencing this, bit by bit (pun intended), and eventually the real and the unreal start to blur. And that me is one of the really interesting opportunities: who is going be doing it better, who is going be producing the really good content on top if the layers, who is going be ingesting reality with whatever higher fidelity.
Josh WolfeāThe Prof G Pod
Unlocking āDisruptive Powerā For Your Marketplace:
Many marketplaces superimpose some form of infrastructure on an existing market. To help the people doing transactions already do them more efficiently or better or with more assurance that will go well [..] What they don't unlock, is they don't bring new consumers who have never been able to participate in the transactions before, or new producers-same thing- who for whatever reason couldn't be in the market.
Scott KominersāNfX Podcast
The Motivations Of Facebook Reporters, And Their Sources:
A lot of Facebook's mistakes were really adhoc. A lot of those decisions they make, which are hugely consequential down the line, are just of group of like twelve people in a room hammering it out, trying to figure it as they go along. There isn't this grand plan motivating Facebook's action like some people, both Republican and Democrat, like to put on that company.
Sheera FrenkelāBig Technology Podcast (Apple, Spotify)
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