👋 On time for your weekend: a round-up of this week’s remarkable stories at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design, and #culture.
📚 Reading
The Secret to Happiness at Work:
To be happy at work, you don’t have to hold a fascinating job that represents the pinnacle of your educational achievement or the most prestigious use of your “potential,” and you don’t have to make a lot of money. What matters is not so much the “what” of a job, but more the “who” and the “why”: Job satisfaction comes from people, values, and a sense of accomplishment.
🤓 So much social capital in the “who” and “why”—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic
Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world:
Thus, Emergent Ventures appears to be designed against anyone looking for credentials, large amounts of cash, or status/attention. Instead, the program selects and rewards earnestness. Maybe because few other things in life reward this, earnest people are so delighted to be recognized that they can’t help but refer friends.
😎 Earnest talent eats strategy for lunch—Tony Kulesa
Could Gen Z Free the World From Email?
Members of Generation Z are often portrayed as constantly glued to a phone without questioning the cost. But […] digital natives are perhaps best equipped to think critically about digital habits. Members of Gen Z “are remarkably perceptive about the ways that technology has changed their world and have a much more nuanced view than adults give them credit for.”
🤭 Who is the more adult, anyway?—Sophia June, The New York Times
🎧 Listening
The Platform Delusion:
What makes a business strong, for the long term, is structural competitive advantages. That's things that allow you to do stuff that other people can't. And some platform businesses have it and some of them don't. Replacing that fundamental insight about what makes businesses good with a bunch of random buzzwords is bad long term, for a couple of reasons...
Jonathan Knee—Big Technology Podcast
The Impact of Technology and Remote Access on Cities and Suburbs:
I think, that the matching angle and the depth of the talent pool of the Internet is going to overwhelm whatever disadvantages there are to working remotely, I think, the advantage of accessing a huge talent pool is going to overwhelm all of the pitfalls of remote work. Especially, since remote work is not really anti-cities, or anti-people ever meeting each other, or ever socializing, or ever doing anything else.
Dror Poleg—Charter Cities Podcast
The Great Online Game:
[I]f you take it the right way, you're just building this kind of one ongoing kind of living, breathing resume. And then two, this kind of just set of relationships that have these loose ties that famously are the best way to find a job or an opportunity or a spouse or whatever else. And so if you're doing those two things at the same time [..] You'll find a good job in this very particular thing that you're interested in.
Packy McCormick—Infinite Loops
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