Tag Archives: productivity

Keep working. Don’t get up.

Posted on February 18, 2023 by

‘Inside Meta’s Push to Solve the Noisy Office’, WSJ, February 16, 2023: Coming to the campuses of Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is a contraption that can block sound, shield workers from their peers and allow for heads-down, uninterrupted work. … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Science | Tagged cubicle, cult of productivity, esprit de corps, Meta, office space, productivity | Comments Off

Ending 2019

Posted on December 28, 2019 by

This blog achieved multiple minor but personally enjoyable milestones in 2019: It was read by people in 143 counties, the highest in a single year since 2008 (when I started blogging) It was the second busiest year by traffic (after … Continue reading →

Posted in Life notes | Tagged blogging, bounce back, happiness, heterodoxy, populism, productivity, writing habit | Comments Off

‘Work from home’ is about culture, not economics

Posted on May 23, 2018 by

Working from home (WFH) is not for everyone or for every company. It works mostly when individual employees of an organisation don’t need to work together often, or are embedded in workflows where tasks move quickly from one stage to … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds | Tagged Ctrip, discrimination, Fiverr, labour force, mere-exposure effect, midday meal scheme, productivity, Silivon Valley, Skype, Slack, suburban alienation, telecommuting, urban planning, urban sprawl, wfh, work from home | Comments Off

Money for science

Posted on July 20, 2015 by

Spending money on science has been tied to evaluating the value of spin-offs, assessing the link between technological advancement and GDP, and dissecting the metrics of productivity, but the debate won’t ever settle no matter how convincingly each time it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged CERN, GDP, James Webb Space Telescope, productivity, public spending for science, Yuri Milner | Comments Off