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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Apr 2018
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      “Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day” is a 2015 book about this. I haven’t read it. http://amzn.to/2uRKgYA 

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Apr 2018
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      “Bullshit jobs” is the technical term, coined by @davidgraeber, for the paid aspect. I don’t find his explanation for them convincing, and he didn’t propose a solution in his original viral article, but it’s a good description of the problem. http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-david-graeber/ …

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Apr 2018
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      Graeber has a book coming out next month that proposes a theory for why there are so many bullshit jobs (which a naive view would suppose capitalism ought to eliminate). ♻️@againstutopia, @bornwithatail_, @IlariKaila https://amzn.to/2Jrn4Uk 

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Apr 2018
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      In the mean time, “The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy,” also by @davidgraeber, looks highly relevant, and is now on my to-read list: https://amzn.to/2ErwPho 

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Apr 2018
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      David Chapman Retweeted Venkatesh brrrRao

      Here @vgr injects his 2x2-fu:https://twitter.com/vgr/status/982358055156310016 …

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      Venkatesh brrrRao @vgr
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      Shadow work = unpaid but necessary Bullshit work = paid but unnecessary Paid+necessary=essential services Unpaid+unnecessary=all stupid work as well as great genius spec work
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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Apr 2018
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      David Chapman Retweeted Stephen Pimentel

      Several people pointed out, in different ways, that the problem is not information technology, it’s social technology—or just political will. IT can free us from drudgery—or enslave us. For one example, in many countries taxes are automated. Another:https://twitter.com/StephenPiment/status/981952230759657473 …

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      Stephen Pimentel @StephenPiment
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      Agree with all of this. And yet there are also complex services based on mobile apps that work smoothly and well. So it seems that we suffer from pathologies of social organization and governance (interacting with technology), not from technology per se.
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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Apr 2018
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      Relatedly, several pointed out that regulatory capture is a major cause of the problem. Economists measure the cost in terms of rent extraction and obstacles to innovation. They (probably?) don’t take into account the human cost of generating shadow work and bullshit jobs.

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    8. Jared Janes‏ @JaredJanes 6 Apr 2018
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      My career in management has been such a brutal demonstration of the efficiency cost of scaling operations that if I could choose, I would never manage a team of more that 5 again.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Apr 2018
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      That’s my experience too. OTOH, there are things that can only be done by large orgs. Steering 10,000 (or even 100) unmotivated, clueless people to get something done is a different management skill. Probably not one I’d be good at, but I’m curious about what it’d be like.

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    10. Jared Janes‏ @JaredJanes 6 Apr 2018
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      For sure, I have a strong intuition that enabling the small subgroups (5ish) in these large orgs to either have or feel like they have a lot of autonomy is a important part of the puzzle. Disempowerment seems to be a big part of what leads to so much of the waste...

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Apr 2018
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      That seems plausible to me! I have little experience. OTOH, if there’s insufficient top-down control, orgs can wind up being pulled in all directions and accomplish nothing, collapse in factionalism, die of damage from internal rogue ops, etc.

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        2. Jared Janes‏ @JaredJanes 6 Apr 2018
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          Indeed, completely denying hierarchy is a great way to go nowhere. Yet, I think the main function of leaders should be defining a direction/vision. Then enable their workers to do most of the navigation. Quite the balance to be struck.

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