[LI] Ikigai revisited; under-employed, over-qualified, etc.; monetizing data ≠ happy jobs

Two replies and a post on LinkedIn about jobs. Reply to post by Gary Bolles of his video entitled "Ikigai: View From the Heights" (United Palace of Spiritual Arts / Singularity University, 11 September 2020) September 2020 (posted September 2020) Nice talk. On the four areas (like, good at, world needs, & being paid for) …

[LI] Gender & self-promotion; redefine “work” to understand recession’s impact on women?

One post and one reply on LinkedIn, addressing aspects of  how economic and employment structures impact women differently than men. In the first, the use of self-assessments in hiring and evaluations highlights a gender difference in self-promotion that tends to work to the disadvantage of women (and the advantage of men). In the second, how …

[LI] Hobbies & jobs; jobs, time-off, & motivation

A reply and a post on LinkedIn about the relationships between jobs and leisure (time or activities) - benefits of the latter for performance in the former, and costs to motivation when the former encroaches on the latter. The article featured in the first of the two was useful in my writing the article on …

[LI] The space​ between (and around) jobs and hobbies

Source: "My hobby: present perfect,"​ ESOL Nexus, British Council https://esol.britishcouncil.org What relationship, if any, do hobbies have with jobs? I never really considered this beyond the perspective that work and leisure tend to occupy separate domains, even if we might interleave small bits of one with the other in various contexts. What led me to …

[LI] Importance of unpaid work; distinguishing between work & job as key to new paradigm?

Two posts to LinkedIn relating to how we define "work." The first highlights the importance of unpaid work and by extension the larger definition of work, with reference to the role of the former in crises such as the COVID pandemic. The second quotes from a 1974 scholarly article by Carroll Bourg on jobs and …

[LI] Robots vs managers; BS jobs; organizational stupidity

Three posts on LinkedIn relating to organizational dysfunction: a poll purporting that many people would trust robots over their managers (the poll itself raises some questions); I suggest a diagram situating "BS jobs" outside of "work"; and another take on how organizations get the worst out of us. "Trust a robot, not your manager," by …

[LI] Multitasking; productivity in office spaces; motivation

Three items posted to LinkedIn. These have to do with aspects of work, two primarily in job settings, and two about productivity. "What’s one of the keys to mastering multitasking? Feedback," by Srini Pillay, Ideas.TED.com, 27 February 2018 (posted November 2019) Interesting discussion of multitasking, juggling & "supertasking." Some of this is common sense (combining …

[LI] Trekonomics; innovation without pay; economic value

Three items outside of mainstream economics posted to LinkedIn: science fiction imagining a moneyless future; innovation outside of the context of paid work, and the meaning of value (as opposed to price) in economics. "The Economic Lessons of Star Trek’s Money-Free Society," Wired, 28 May 2016 (posted August 2019) Fascinating. Will have to get a …

[LI] A 5- or 6-hour jobday (& why not “workday”)

Two items about shorter jobdays, each with comments why I don't use "workday" in this context. The first is a reply to a posting, and the second is a posting of an older article about a 2-year experiment, 2-years after it was ended (and people returned to the standard 8-hour jobday). Reply to a post …

[LI] Matching skills & positions; AI copywriter

Items posted on LinkedIn: how organizations match skills and positions, and a successful AI ad writer. I find in these reasons to return, respectively, to the related ideas of "intelligent agents" working for individuals (here as employees in an organization), and AI to handle the repetitive & formulaic writing needed in job seeking. "Why Talented …