The workplace

2024-12-19

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD: Spending hours a day looking at the worst humanity has to offer is damaging to one’s health.

2024-12-19: Moderating Facebook is giving their less privileged workers PTSD

2024-10-20

Get Me Out Of Data Hell: The day Nikhil Suresh’s software engineering work pushed him so far into the pain zone that he has to quit there and then.

2024-10-19

The Shareholder Supremacy: One of the many original sins of modern-day capitalism was when we decided companies should focus on pleasing their shareholders rather than their customers.

The Other Bubble: Why “Software as a Service” (SaaS) products - especially the enterprise-oriented offerings - often end up being so awful.

2024-10-15

The Art of Working Loudly: Don’t hold back from talking about what you’re working on.

2024-10-14

TikTok plans mass job cuts on UK moderation and safety teams: To be replaced by a mix of offshore workers that they can treat and pay a lot worse alongside cost-cutting ‘automation’ it sounds like.

2024-10-10

In pursuit of the Engineering Analyst: On the (fairly new) role of the analytics engineer.

New enforcement agency will protect workers’ rights as part of ‘watershed’ bill: Big fan of anything that shifts the balance of employer:employee power away from the total dominance of the former.

2024-09-28: 📽️ Watched Hidden Figures.

2024-09-28

The True Story of “Hidden Figures,” the Forgotten Women Who Helped Win the Space Race: Not all 1960s NASA brainiacs were bespectacled White men.

2024-09-27

Elon Musk says he wants free speech, but his track record suggests otherwise: Elon Musk is only really a ‘free speech absolutist’ when it comes to his own speech.

2024-08-14: 📚 Finished reading Starting & Running a Business All-in-One For Dummies by Colin Barrow.

2024-07-23: Think about your actual rather than idealised office when deciding whether to go into work