Monday, June 07, 2021

Gushing Over Remote Work


The gushing over remote work, often written by journalists who like remote work, may not fade soon but it will eventually fade as people realize that "being there" is important and irreplaceable. Those who foster strong relationships in face-to-face conversations will outdistance the technical souls who, despite the neatest backdrops and best lighting, were not in the room.

Now That We're Heading Back to the Airports

 


"Your ideas are not on trial: You are."

 The Daily Signal: My woke employees tried to cancel me.

In the Stack



Remember

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Reality Distortion

"The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law estimates that 0.6 percent of Americans identify as transgender (and a survey in the American Journal of Public Health found an even smaller number—fewer than 1 million). Given this fact, coverage in media outlets of transgender issues is dramatically, disproportionately outsized. A glance at the Transgender Issues page on the New York Times site reveals that the newspaper of record published 30 stories about transgender issues in the month of April alone, bringing the total number of transgender stories it has published since January to 76."

Read all of Christine Rosen's essay in Commentary magazine.

Outliers



The Big Story


The more I study the modern workplace, the more I believe that the big story is not what people do with their computers and smartphones - although that is certainly significant - but what those extraordinary types of technology are slowly doing to people.

Interesting Websites: A Series

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