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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 8
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      Kinda interesting that a lot of fresh grads are diving straight into free-agenting these days without working at a regular job first. I’m noticing that many lack what we consider basic workplace skills. They are the workforce equivalent of unschooled/homeschooled.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 8
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      Most of it is going to be vestigial skills like sending faxes and spilling out shitty SAP things soon. But some skills like gently herding people and activities with sheepdog emails, defusing conflicts etc might be lost. You pick up a lot watching older people do this stuff.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 8
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          I’m a decent manager when I’m motivated enough to be. It’s just a lot of thankless work.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 8
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          I guess Gen Z won’t even get TPS report jokes. Office Space might have been the last good office movie before offices themselves began vanishing slowly.

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 8
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          But overall it’s good that everybody is wfh and bringing the office to where free agents are. Hope it partially doesn’t go back. WFH culture can be alt office culture.

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 8
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          A world where working in offices is a weird single-digit minority thing like farming,... that would be fascinating. Right now farm labor is like 1%. Used to be like 80% a few centuries ago. In 2220, people might pay to work-vacation in a real, organic office

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        1. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv Jul 8
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          I remember being amused/entertained by how good you were at managing the large crowd yak collective discord. One might even mistake you for a person who likes doing that stuff

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        2. Leon Markham‏ @humanleon Jul 8
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          Semi related - good email is one of the most underrated skills

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          It’s pretty much my only skill 😎

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        1. monk‏ @yetanothermonk Jul 9
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          What is a sheepdog email?

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        1. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele Jul 9
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          Understand a cultural norms: where flexible/not. Understand direction: what is real/not. Who to pay attention to/ ignore. Who to trust/avoid. Etc.

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