--- According to a Gallup study, 85% of employees worldwide are disengaged at work. People feel drained, exhausted, and resent their jobs. ---
I read this on the day that both MSFT and META announced their massive "under performers" layoff and it was easy to understand why people are disengaged at work. This week was the federal employee firings; starting with a few thousand and potentially reaching several 100K (source CBS News).
No one feels like they have any job security, so you end up with an entire population that is spending their work week in fear of losing income (and benefits in the US). It's hard to be productive with a metaphoric guillotine in the fishbowl conference room.
Job security is always largely a facade. Unless you are the owner of the company, you can be removed at any moment. Only thing you can do is make yourself as indispensable as possible to the operation to make it harder to remove you without pain.
I previously had interacted with some folks who called themselves an innovation SWAT team or innovation special forces. I really wanted to ask them have you risked death in implementing SaaS ERP solutions?
"Professional athletes are fortunate to earn large fortunes while doing something they love, but it doesn’t mean that they enjoy every second of it. Between the time spent practicing, training, media obligations and other requirements, they end up spending a very small percentage of their time actually “playing” their sport."
Even time spent playing the sport is increasingly results-oriented rather than about the beauty and craft of the game. In basketball, the sole focus has become getting the maximum number of points with the least effort. https://substack.com/@peterbanks/note/c-81644708
players are more skilled and better conditioned than ever but despite the talent, too many games are snooze fests where teams are just running up the court chucking up threes than running back down and not playing any defense.
They all say the same thing in press conferences, trying to just avoid making waves.
Not just on the players but from the coaches too, makes it less fun to watch as a fan since you can tell the players aren’t having much fun either (besides those few guys on the bench who don’t play but are just happy to be getting paid still )
The irony is that everyone involved gets what they want. Players and coaches get more points and better stats. Owners have a trophy asset that keeps appreciating because so many billionaires (and private equity funds) want to own a limited number of pro sports teams.
But the obsession with stats like PPG makes fans less excited to watch, which reduces the most important thing: viewership and overall revenue. No wonder they've embraced sports betting as a way to turn things around.
I read this in a tweet recently and it's spot on: "your life will get lighter when you center it around creation. you will go insane if all your life is waiting to be done moving pixels around until you can afford to fly somewhere you saw in an amex lounge. build something with your hands. carve a block of wood. do anything."
--- According to a Gallup study, 85% of employees worldwide are disengaged at work. People feel drained, exhausted, and resent their jobs. ---
I read this on the day that both MSFT and META announced their massive "under performers" layoff and it was easy to understand why people are disengaged at work. This week was the federal employee firings; starting with a few thousand and potentially reaching several 100K (source CBS News).
No one feels like they have any job security, so you end up with an entire population that is spending their work week in fear of losing income (and benefits in the US). It's hard to be productive with a metaphoric guillotine in the fishbowl conference room.
Job security is always largely a facade. Unless you are the owner of the company, you can be removed at any moment. Only thing you can do is make yourself as indispensable as possible to the operation to make it harder to remove you without pain.
I previously had interacted with some folks who called themselves an innovation SWAT team or innovation special forces. I really wanted to ask them have you risked death in implementing SaaS ERP solutions?
Does death by boredom count?
"Professional athletes are fortunate to earn large fortunes while doing something they love, but it doesn’t mean that they enjoy every second of it. Between the time spent practicing, training, media obligations and other requirements, they end up spending a very small percentage of their time actually “playing” their sport."
Even time spent playing the sport is increasingly results-oriented rather than about the beauty and craft of the game. In basketball, the sole focus has become getting the maximum number of points with the least effort. https://substack.com/@peterbanks/note/c-81644708
players are more skilled and better conditioned than ever but despite the talent, too many games are snooze fests where teams are just running up the court chucking up threes than running back down and not playing any defense.
They all say the same thing in press conferences, trying to just avoid making waves.
Not just on the players but from the coaches too, makes it less fun to watch as a fan since you can tell the players aren’t having much fun either (besides those few guys on the bench who don’t play but are just happy to be getting paid still )
The irony is that everyone involved gets what they want. Players and coaches get more points and better stats. Owners have a trophy asset that keeps appreciating because so many billionaires (and private equity funds) want to own a limited number of pro sports teams.
But the obsession with stats like PPG makes fans less excited to watch, which reduces the most important thing: viewership and overall revenue. No wonder they've embraced sports betting as a way to turn things around.
it's points inflation. Happening in all the major sports. Offense is great for casual fans, so completely understand why they do it.
Just feel like a boomer yelling at clouds that the game itself is less exciting outside the points.
Relevant to our discussion: The NBA Has Fallen Into an Efficiency Trap https://archive.ph/OhFf1
I wish I was tedious, one more thing I need to learn for my day job and I'm gonna go insane.
Tedious tasks are like heat seeking missiles perfectly designed to frustrate you.
I read this in a tweet recently and it's spot on: "your life will get lighter when you center it around creation. you will go insane if all your life is waiting to be done moving pixels around until you can afford to fly somewhere you saw in an amex lounge. build something with your hands. carve a block of wood. do anything."