Substack Has A Problem

I'm a fan of Substack, but there is some stuff going on behind the scenes that needs deeper understanding of what they are trying to do.

Switch It Off Already

Why do people write screeds about how they hate one social media space or another?

When Zero Is Everything

For decades, the business world has embraced worker empowerment. But recently a countermovement—workforce optimization—has been on the rise. It treats labor as a commodity and seeks to cut it to a minimum by using automation and artificial...

Slack Solves The Wrong Problem Really Well

Or as Cal puts it … “Slack is the Right Tool for the Wrong Way to Work.” ”The future of office work won’t be found in continuing to reduce the friction involved in messaging but, instead, in figuring out how to avoid the need to...

It used to be that we lived in private and chose to make parts of our lives public. Now that is being turned on its head. We live in public, like the movie says (except via micro-signals not 24–7 video self-surveillance), and choose what parts of...