Category: work
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The Crunch Article on Polygon
Polygon has published an excerpt from a book by Walt Williams, their headline: “Why I worship crunch”: When I worship at the unholy altar of Crunch, everything outside of the work fades away. By design, my world is reduced to where I sleep and where I work. Every day must be fast, focused, and above…
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The Medium Car Crash
Evan Williams and his work are profiled in the New York Times by David Streitfeld. He’s behind Twitter and Blogger. There is one good point that succinctly explains a big problem with the web today: The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and…
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Unpaid Labor and Hiring Decisions Based on Free Software Contributions
Ashe Dryden with an older article on the subject of who can give their development time to free or open source software, and who benefits from it: I don’t know that we can easily measure how much labor actually goes into creating the software that we use every day. Software that we not only benefit from…
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Delete Uber Part 4000
Susan Fowler writing about a year working for the illegal taxi service, Uber, and describing what happened after reporting sexual harassment: I was then told that I had to make a choice: (i) I could either go and find another team and then never have to interact with this man again, or (ii) I could stay…