wfh, in my opinion can be less than ideal over an extended period of time.
to me, there’s something powerful about showing up together with others in the same place to do good, meaningful and impactful work.
I’m my opinion and experience WFH has been better than I imagined it could be. and just about everyone I work with feels the same way. extraordinarily powerful impact on the balance of my whole life as a person.
Thank you for the explanations on Sandusky/Paterno and Bomber Mafia. I read several of the earlier Gladwell books and found them entertaining and thought provoking, but simplistic and obviously too incomplete to present nuanced descriptions and conclusions.
Pro war propaganda never stops in USA, because USA is almost always at war. Let's Run posters repeat it frequently on the boards, and a pro war propaganda article is often featured as one of the classic oldies in the links at the bottom of the main page.
Thank you for the explanations on Sandusky/Paterno and Bomber Mafia. I read several of the earlier Gladwell books and found them entertaining and thought provoking, but simplistic and obviously too incomplete to present nuanced descriptions and conclusions.
Pro war propaganda never stops in USA, because USA is almost always at war. Let's Run posters repeat it frequently on the boards, and a pro war propaganda article is often featured as one of the classic oldies in the links at the bottom of the main page.
What has war ever done besides ending slavery, forming our country, stopping Hitler, slowing the spread of communist oppression, etc.
Funny that he says "I’m really getting very frustrated with the inability of people in positions of leadership to explain this effectively to their employees," but then doesn't articulate much himself. Telling employees who want to wfh that they should be in the office to "be part of something bigger than themselves" isn't going to change any minds.
When there's a divide in workplaces with some people going in a lot and others mostly at home, those in the office are likely to advance in their careers more quickly and further up the chain. After you get 2-3 rungs up in the ladder, a lot of your advancement has to do with relationships. Relationships, image, and exposure. It's true whether it's fair or not. If the people working from home get their stuff done and don't care about their careers, then good for them.
Funny that he says "I’m really getting very frustrated with the inability of people in positions of leadership to explain this effectively to their employees," but then doesn't articulate much himself. Telling employees who want to wfh that they should be in the office to "be part of something bigger than themselves" isn't going to change any minds.
When there's a divide in workplaces with some people going in a lot and others mostly at home, those in the office are likely to advance in their careers more quickly and further up the chain. After you get 2-3 rungs up in the ladder, a lot of your advancement has to do with relationships. Relationships, image, and exposure. It's true whether it's fair or not. If the people working from home get their stuff done and don't care about their careers, then good for them.
The people who go into the office daily are the low level grunts. The top dogs work from home mostly.
or is there some overarching pompous element about Malcom Gladwell that really makes you want to stomp him?
Maybe some anger management would help you. Malcolm may be pompous but most of LetsRun does not like him because he is smarter than most of them and they are jealous. Does the guy always make sense? No of course not. Does he sometimes appear to argue strenuously for the absurd?Yes of course. And he is still smarter than most of you and you don’t like it.
or is there some overarching pompous element about Malcom Gladwell that really makes you want to stomp him?
Maybe some anger management would help you. Malcolm may be pompous but most of LetsRun does not like him because he is smarter than most of them and they are jealous. Does the guy always make sense? No of course not. Does he sometimes appear to argue strenuously for the absurd?Yes of course. And he is still smarter than most of you and you don’t like it.
Well, Malcolm is definitely smarter than you. I think we can all agree on that.
Maybe some anger management would help you. Malcolm may be pompous but most of LetsRun does not like him because he is smarter than most of them and they are jealous. Does the guy always make sense? No of course not. Does he sometimes appear to argue strenuously for the absurd?Yes of course. And he is still smarter than most of you and you don’t like it.
Well, Malcolm is definitely smarter than you. I think we can all agree on that.
I wasn’t speaking of myself. He is smarter than most of you.
I have actually had MORE opportunities since we went remote due to leadership making themselves more readily available by Teams, virtual town halls, etc. People in satellite offices finally feel on equal ground with people in HQs too.
The two companies I have worked for during the pandemic have made their leaders more accessible and a company that I’m interviewing for now has said they are 100 percent remote, are looking for ways to build culture in this new environment, as they would love to reduce their real estate (not remove it entirely).
I’m not sure I’ll take it for other reasons, but it seems like if you’re doing remote correctly — you are dealing with this reality head on, not try to shove everyone back in an office if they don’t want to.
wfh, in my opinion can be less than ideal over an extended period of time.
to me, there’s something powerful about showing up together with others in the same place to do good, meaningful and impactful work.
I’m my opinion and experience WFH has been better than I imagined it could be. and just about everyone I work with feels the same way. extraordinarily powerful impact on the balance of my whole life as a person.
How many people have the privilege of doing work that is meaningful, impactful or do what they love? Most people are cogs in the wheel, let’s be real. So if telework makes the job you dislike a little less or much less painful, fantastic.
Why did the movie Office Space resonate with so many people? Bc that was a lot of people’s lives!
Explain 1 and 2. I am not familiar with any of this. I sense that you are exaggerating or lying.
1. Talking to Strangers has a chapter on Jerry Sandusky. One of his key points is that he thinks people have been too hard on Paterno and the Penn State leadership who turned a blind eye to Sandusky’s crimes. He repeated this many times in his interviews and talks about the book to pretty befuddled audiences.
2. The Bomber Mafia is a poorly researched and very roundabout defense of the firebombing of Tokyo during WWII, probably the single deadliest attack in the history of human civilization. He calls the British commanders who firebombed Dresden psychopaths but then turns around and argues that America’s mass bombing of civilians even before the atom bombs was somehow good for the Japanese people.
I have zero sympathy for Japan for any firebombing or atom bomb dropped on them. they 1000% deserved it. They enabled and supported their leadership into an unjust and horrific offensive war, and continued to deify their emperor and leaders while they commited heinous crimes worse than what Josef Mengele did in the holocaust (look up unit 731 and rape of nanking).
How many protests did the Japanese undertake to stop this from happening?
When you no longer act like a human being, you don't deserve to be treated like one. I'd personally drop the atom bomb or order the firebombing myself If I could transport myself to the 1940s.