Josh Brewer joins us to share how Twitter’s team of 40+ designers interact, what they look for in new candidates, and an astounding 8 more openings for designers. Oh, and kale chips and unlimited bacon.
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Hired. - Joshua Brewer, Twitter
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RSA - Tomorrow’s Work. Why Yesterday’s Expectations Are Ruining Today’s Future
RSA Keynote 7th Feb 2013; 18:00 (full recording including audience Q&A)
Technologist and writer Ben Hammersley explores the role of the internet and digital technologies in today’s workplace.
As social media, mobile devices, constant communication, online sharing, and open collaboration become the norms in the rest of our lives, the traditional workplace is failing to adapt.
How do our traditional workplace models conflict with our new internet-driven expectations of how we might live and work to our full potential, and how might companies and organisations learn to adapt in the 21st century?
Speaker: Ben Hammersley, Prime Minister’s Ambassador to TechCity, contributing editor, Wired UK, innovator in residence, Goldsmiths, University of London and author of ‘64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then’.
Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA.
Tagged with rsa technology work culture society business book:author=ben hammersley
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Back to Work #30: I’m Not Working in an Abattoir - 5by5
Back to Work #30: I’m Not Working in an Abattoir - 5by5
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Shot of Jaq: Life Online Part 1: The Balance
With many of us spending increasing amounts of time plugged into our laptops and servers, in this first of a two-shot series, Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore how we balance our online and offline lives, the heath implications, and the challenges that face us with mobile devices and how to get away.
http://shotofjaq.org/2010/01/life-online-part-1-the-balance/
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‘Drive’ Not Always Explained By Rewards
Managers have long assumed employees will work harder for fiscal rewards. In Drive, Daniel Pink argues that people will do more if they are given the opportunity to work on their own time, to be creative, and to do good.
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Great Work Interview - Merlin Mann
http://www.boxofcrayons.biz/2009/11/great-work-interview-merlin-mann/
Here’s a confession. I want to be able to think like Merlin Mann.
He’s really smart on the topic of productivity, and in fact some part of his success comes from 43Folders.com which is a reference to David Allen’s Getting Things Done system. But his work is not just about productivity. It’s about creativity and purpose and striving to stay human and sane in a busy and distracting world and doing work that matters, doing Great Work. And he does all of this in funny, provocative, iconoclastic way.
In fact, writing this introduction and listening to the interview again has already provoked me to shift some of my own commitments in an effort to, as he puts it, “identify and destroy small return bullshit. Shut off anything that’s noisier than it is useful.” Great stuff indeed, and this is a wise and funny interview.
In our conversation we talk about:
- How the present is a “remedial course for the future” – and the pros and cons of those ‘creation myth’ stories of where people find clues for their Great Work
- The importance of an open heart and just where that might lead you
- The connection between productivity and creativity
- The two levels of prioritization (and how freeing it is to know that)
- And quite a bit more
You can follow Merlin on Twitter at http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies
The interviews are all between 25 and 30 minutes long. You can either download them here as mp3s, or go to iTunes, type in “Great Work Interviews” and you’ll see them all there.
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Alain de Botton; renowned essayist, philosopher and founder of ‘The School of Life’ will be examining the nature and function of work in this thought-provoking lecture.
Most of our waking hours are spent at work, and yet we rarely challenge the basic assumptions that lie behind this time-consuming, life-altering activity.
http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/the-pleasures-and-sorrows-of-work
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SXSW - Is Spec Work Evil? The Online Creative Community Speaks
From http://www.sxsw.com/node/1527
The ‘no-spec’ movement has long held sway in the design community but the web has created a new model for design that allows a freer exchange of ideas and inspiration and more ways to enter the design profession than ever before. What does social creativity look like?
- Mike Samson, crowdspring.com
- David Carson, davidcarsondesign
- Jeff Howe, Wired Magazine
- Jeffrey Kalmikoff, skinnyCorp/Threadless
- Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester
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Change v2
Obama has awoken a once in a century passion for reform. What will it take to make it work? What would "work" mean?
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School
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Malcolm Gladwell - The Ecology of Success
Now, Malcolm Gladwell is taking on success itself, in a new book called “Outliers.” He’s looking at how society and culture determine who we are, and in particular, what accounts for super-success — for the outsized success of superstars.
It’s not what you may think, he says. Not genes or bootstrap grit. There’s a whole ecology to it, he says. Time Magazine calls his new book “a frontal assault on the great American myth of the self-made man.”
This hour, On Point: Malcolm Gladwell, on the ecology of success.
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/11/malcolm-gladwells-outliers/