Rotting internet; Dream tech; Time management
Milk, No Sugar #286
💡Think
The tech industry is in a weird hiring spot at the moment. If you speak to either someone looking for a job, or someone hiring for a job they will tell you it’s hard.
How can this be? People are struggling to find a job, and people are struggling to fill them. I would assume that this is the natural breaking point of a largely undefined and unregulated industry, where we’re all headless chickens trying to fudge answers until it works.
It’s something that I loosely considered a few years ago, but is becoming even more of a potential necessity – accreditation. What if we could align our skills to a central industry standard, meaning that when we are benchmarked for a position, there’s something to compare against.
Thoughts?
📷 Look
📖 Read
❶ The internet is rotting
The internet was created without a business model, was free to use – “it was the mortar, and you brought your own bricks” – it has no homepage, and anyone can contribute, which means that (as you’re aware) we’re drowning in content. The issue here though, is that because in order for us to find it, we need links, and these need to be updated or maintained. Guess what’s happening? Millions of web pages are disappearing because their links are broken. This is leading us down a path where vast swabs of the internet are dropping off the…cloud?
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❷ Choose your own…dream
I’ve been a semi lucid dreamer for a long time now, and it’s always weird when you think you’re awake but actually just choosing how your dream moves around. It turns out that with technology, we’ll soon all have the option to choose what we dream about, which is completely bonkers. I guess the questions is, what would you choose to dream about?
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❸ Time management won’t save you
I’m sure this’ll be a big ouch for a lot of us who pride ourselves on our ability to work efficiently and fast. The reality is though, that the more efficient you are, the more work you’ll end up doing. It’s a downward spiral to a firm burnout. What’s more, over the past year+, the average worker has actually ended up doing more than 30 minute extra “in the office” than normal. Not good.
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Bonus round
Cool video showing us what the 2021 industrial design trends are
I’m the guest at an event this week where I’ll be talking about design operations and systems, thrilling stuff 😉
Episode #3 of my podcast 8px Radio is now live
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The crisis of loneliness
“Way to up the mood, Luis” – don’t worry, this is a fascinating episode about psychology and modern attitudes to socialising and networks.
Something particularly curious is that loneliness contributes negatively to our ideas of democracy. How? Well, the less we interact with others (particularly with differing ideas), the more we seek “radical” opinions, which plays right into the hand of our global populist political trend.
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Luis Ouriach
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