A brief note for the few remaining visitors to this joint: I’m mostly hanging out these days at Medium. Having been given a very unceremonious bon voyage from my last employer, I’m focused on exploring and writing about the work world. You know about my micro-memoir of my time at various tech companies, right? And some hard-earned wisdom about getting canned at ‘mushroom farms’? After reading about other people’s bizarre work experience — please read Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley—I’m convinced what I’ve seen in tech is a warning for the rest of humanity.
Rather than bore with you the screed about how the .1% are immiserating workers, I wrote this very short sci-fi story called I Love My Boss. In the very near future, we’ll all become high-productive knowledge workers who won’t be able to afford the basics. Enjoy!