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fasterandworse.com • 73 days ago

Dispatch #21: Everything Is Work Now

Tech products have a work/life balance problem

Podcast episode: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/7cdb9dc1/everything-is-work-now

Video dispatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_os9Pp3AYW4

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fasterandworse.com•54 days ago

"Goodbye Skype, hello Teams"

atbeaune.bsky.social•19 days ago

😬

fasterandworse.com•57 days ago

turn your conversations into work

fasterandworse.com•73 days ago

When all the tech products try to be general purpose enough to satisfy business *and* personal needs, the business needs will inevitably be dominant because that's where the big money is. The result is the workification of everything.

fasterandworse.com•15 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/thomasfuchs.at/post/3lrjeqx544226

fasterandworse.com•64 days ago

oh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxMd3SNEKCA

fasterandworse.com•64 days ago

then swiss army knife of cars (derogatory)

fasterandworse.com•73 days ago

Before glass slab smartphones we had segmentation in the phone industry. There were business devices and there were consumer devices. When the modern smartphone merged them into one the bland sense of a lack of innovation was inevitable because business needs dominate.

fasterandworse.com•73 days ago

When we say that tech used to be fun, innovative, and exciting, we may be referring to a pre-general-purpose era when segmentation removed the risk of scaring business customers away with seemingly unserious products.

Here's then CEO of Symbian Nigel Clifford in 2006, just before the iPhone

fasterandworse.com•73 days ago

It's important to notice that *productivity* is a work pursuit.

It shouldn't be normal to see web browsing as a platform for productivity in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Envvyjvva8

fasterandworse.com•68 days ago

The future of wordpress is they don't give a shit about your little websites

source: https://wordpress.org/news/files/2025/02/WordPress-in-2025-Report-Noel-Tock.pdf

fasterandworse.com•68 days ago

My son's favourite maths joke atm is "hey dad do you know what 100 x 0 is? nothing!"

margevonmarge.bsky.social•73 days ago

I guess everyone has to look for jobs all day now because the idea of a stable career in a single company/institution is no longer viable and they want it to stay that way so no one gets a final salary pension, reliable healthcare, inflation adjusted raises and whatever else used to be normal?

mosermostly.bsky.social•15 days ago

Screaming with rage, we don't need an app to handle the handoff we need paid leave

fasterandworse.com•15 days ago

you mean notion doesn't solve all your problems?

mosermostly.bsky.social•15 days ago

Like it's not an actual solution even for the people being advertised to, but it's also totally erasing most people's experience

mosermostly.bsky.social•15 days ago

It reminds me of being on expecting parent forums and realizing my parental leave issues were champagne problems because easily half the women were back at their job at ...(McDonald's, Walmart, dollar tree, literally any of the big employers) 2 weeks postpartum

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