Digitale Bohéme und so… | Ich habe nie die alte Arbeitswelt des Musikjournalismus erlebt. 2000 erhielt ich meinen ersten Job als Online-Redakteur und Texte, Bilder, Töne und Video gab es immer in Form von Bits und Bytes. Wie Redaktionen früher Texte eingereicht wurden, ist mir ein Rätsel. Wurden Plattenkritiken früher gefaxt oder auf Diskette ans Magazin geschickt? Eine Kolumne über Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.

There was, for a time, a visionary alternative. In 1930 Kellogg Company, the world’s leading producer of ready-to-eat cereal, announced that all of its nearly fifteen hundred workers would move from an eight-hour to a six-hour workday. Company president Lewis Brown and owner W. K. Kellogg noted that if the company ran “four six-hour shifts . . . instead of three eight-hour shifts, this will give work and paychecks to the heads of three hundred more families in Battle Creek.”

all our models involve silly assumptions. Given what we know about cognitive psychology, utility maximization is a ludicrous concept; equilibrium pretty foolish outside of financial markets; perfect competition a howler for most industries. The reason for making these assumptions is not that they are reasonable but that they seem to help us produce models that are helpful metaphors for things that we think happen in the real world.

Consider the example which some economists seem to think is not simply a useful model but revealed divine truth: the Arrow-Debreu model of perfect competition with utility maximization and complete markets. This is indeed a wonderful model -- not because its assumptions are remotely plausible but because it helps us think more clearly about both the nature of economic efficiency and the prospects for achieving efficiency under a market system. It is actually a piece of inspired, marvellous silliness.

This paper does not speak directly to the cyclicality of unemployment and vacancies; however, the paper, and my recent research more generally, suggests that we should not necessarily think of unemployed workers as engaged in a search-intensive activity. Unemployment may instead be a consequence of adverse shocks to the value of human capital. Symmetrically, job vacancies need not be a sign of firms' effort to recruit new workers, but rather of their inability to do so. I am continuing to pursue the broader implications of these preliminary findings.

so, in a sense, "I quit" is your safe word.

this would be something to show to hawk

Come on, people — you could load a usenet thread off a floppy drive in that time! (ah, memories of timesharing 50 people on a 486-50)

From Good Words June 1877; complete text, hard to read though

Edward Vielmetti is one of my favorite meme-farmers. (Peter Merholz is another). Here's a great discussion at Ed's Vacuum site about the changing nature of work.

Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity

Jason, two words for you: "Typer Shark". It will entertain Ollie too.

Examines the nature of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process. ESP 467 explores a variety of issues surrounding new venture creation, including the business plan, the economics of the business, determining resource needs and acquiring resources,

Luminus Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures high performance solid state light sources for a variety of illumination applications.

When the founding fathers ratified life, liberty and happiness, they might not have quite envisioned Independent's Hall. Low-pitched techno music echoes from the high ceilings of a loft-like office on Philadelphia's Strawberry Street. A smattering of 20-s

typing tutor from the tux paint project

Process this pile from the top down. Never re-sort, never skip a single piece of paper, never put a piece of paper back on the pile. Do what needs to be done with that paper, and then move on to the next in the pile. The options: trash it, delegate it, fi

The essence of the Solution Architect (SA) role is the conversion of the requirements into an architecture and design that will become the blueprint for the solution being created. This conversion is based largely upon the previous design patterns that th

awesome weather map meta-information and predictions + storm reports + damage reports

Why is it that the strongest advocates of a networked economy fail to see the importance of communities, which they wrongly equate to social networks?

Is there a word which incorporates all of the following? Work habits and work spaces; time management; mnemonics and other cognitive devices; tools like notebooks and PDAs; personal and shared knowledge management tools (bibliographies, bookmarks and link

suggest this as a routine for people who must spend their days in front of a computer and want to accomplish more: Divide your day into online and offline. Studies have consistently shown that people with more screens open get less done. Multitasking slow

Health Wonk Review is a biweekly compendium of the best of the health policy blogs. More than two dozen health policy, infrastructure, insurance, technology, and managed care bloggers participate by contributing their best recent blog postings to a roving

This study provides prospective, population-based evidence that chronic work stress predicts general and central obesity.

"The San Francisco coffeehouse is the new Palo Alto garage," declares Kevin Burton, 30, who runs his Internet startup Tailrank without renting offices. "It's where all the innovation is happening."

"Co-working is super cool"

I was just clearing my desk of some papers and found a little list I had made one day in preparation for a meeting to help a company think about the considerations for starting a business blog. Since I don't want to keep the scrap of paper, I'm reproducin

coworking = cohousing for work.

"late binding"

The treadputer!

read also "the joy of not working".

re-found at archive.org, bless them

In your working conditions avoid everyday mediocrity. Semi-relaxation, to a background of insipid sounds, is degrading. On the other hand, accompaniment by an etude or a cacophony of voices can become as significant for work as the perceptible silence of the night. If the latter sharpens the inner ear, the former acts as a touchstone for a diction ample enough to bury even the most wayward sounds.

work habits of the famous and not-so-famous