Posts tagged with Work
A Mystery Retrospective
When the COVID shutdowns began and my kids were forced to learn from home, I noticed that they were enamored with this app that taught them STEM concepts. Specifically, the app featured a bunch of videos and activities focused on…
Productivity in an Age of Working From Home
How is your work counted? I mean, literally? In the United States anyway, full-time work[1] has been traditionally split between exempt and non-exempt employment. The exemption here is referring to overtime pay; that is, whether an employee…
Toolin' for Reducin' Cognitive Overhead
Productivity and self-help is a pretty major literary genre, both in blog post form as well as published books and articles. Over the years, I've written numerous times about various systems I put together to make myself…
An Affirm Retrospective
No fine print. It was a few months after I started my new job at Affirm, when I noticed this literally plastered on the hallway walls leading to the company kitchens. Out of our set of company's values,…
Predicting how Remote Work Works
It is now month 5 of Bay Area's general Shelter-in-Place order, and even as the state and our area looks to reopen, the vast majority of companies who can still have employees operate remotely are still…
Getting to Distributed Teams as the Norm
The COVID-induced crisis is supposedly an accelerant of trends. If so, it seems inevitable that remote and distributed work will be rolled out and truly tested on a broad scale; many companies of the technology persuasion have been announcing…
