One idea that I’ve been playing around with in my head is that we’re living in what I call “a fragile now”. So many of our old assumptions about the world and its direction of travel have been overturned in the last decade.
And we may be ill-equipped to truly realise it.
Y’know, it’s getting ever clearer that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t actually know what he’s doing – and when the Meta money machine starts to dry up, that will finally become apparent to everyone.
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.