This week I have learned:
- sometimes you just get those days when meetings don’t happen. “Hoorah!” say those people who don’t think that meetings are real work as they get back to shifting pivot tables around in Excel or whatever it is that they do. I find it much more discombobulating because meetings are actually work.
- I’ve got two ideas running along in my head at the moment in parallel but I think that they might cross over and intersect at some point…
- the first is the idea of how The Protestant Work ethic, the idea that work should involve suffering, is alive and kicking but in an era where in the stronger economies most work these days isn’t physically demanding, it now is used to somehow justify things like really appalling management and diktats about working in particular locations.
- the second is that the idea of what constitutes “In Real Life” (IRL) is fantastically complicated and everyone has a different view.
- computer games are a flashpoint for family arguments. Was I like this about endlessly kicking a ball about when I was a kid?
- there appear to be quite a few people pent up in wanting to move jobs at the moment. I’ve had a lot of career type discussions this week with people.
- the 100Coffees conversations are interesting. Sometimes I ask all the questions, sometimes I’m grilled. Sometimes the conversations are balanced, but often one party talks a lot more than the other. You never know how it will pan out.
Next week: a bit of a break
The week in photos:
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