It’s breathtaking to me, how casually leadership speaks of employees being jailed. As if it’s a fact of life like taxes (though of course that’s something they try to avoid). Everyone starts calling this a “mitigation strategy”— even though the mitigation in this case is to find a “body” to be arrested.
— Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
Friday night link-dump, so so I can finally escape my desk:
(Hmm. “Pre-digested” sounds worse in this context than I expected…)
After announcing a 15 percent reduction in staff last year, GoPro is continuing its cost-cutting measures into 2025 as CEO Nicholas Woodman voluntarily declined his salary for the remainder of the calendar year.
I do like my GoPros. I’d hate to see this company fail.
Apparently I have the cultural sophistication of a 9 year old, as my youngest daughter and I have just nearly wet ourselves laughing at A Minecraft Movie.
It’s a terrible movie, but it’s gloriously terrible.
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Some thoughts on journalism, trust, AI and… a 20 year old debate?
Hat-tip to @ayjay for starting this thought process off.
A flashback to an old feeling: opening up the office copies of a new issue…
The latest issue of XCity magazine is here. Congrats to our magazine students.
This is the end. Embrace it.
Hassocks Station. 📍
Testing the new check-in feature in Micro Social…
This is a lovely piece of artistic graffiti, but it’s the “official” notice next to it that really makes it.
This restructuring will result in an approximately 16% workforce reduction.
Ouch. Sympathies to those impacted.
Discussion of it is everywhere, and @paulrobertlloyd is bored of it.
I know how he feels.
