All my hopes in vain. Google Support rants don't get popular on HackerNews as... well.. everybody knows except me that you should not use or rely on Google. :/
Our department changed to new-work open space as well including those phone booths.
After just 15 minutes it gets uncomfortably warm in these but the worst thing is feeling of being in an aquarium. Coworkers watching from the side through the clear glass feels ultimately dystopian and exposed.
Other funny perks in the video won't stop me getting out there ASAP. Remote from home is liberating as I don't want to partake in any social experiments but just do my job. Sometimes I wish back the lockdowns of the pandemic to evade any nightmarish "office concepts".
Sounds like the effects when a company is blessed with good business for a long time but fails to adapt to upcoming required changed. I have experienced such places and it's real horror to change this situation.
Also the book "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem tells a story about distributed intelligent lifeforms.
Really nice as they are described in a very unique un-anthropocentric way, i.e. their rationality is hardly understandable by the space faring humans encountering them.
Would another Steve Jobs personality have a chance at today's corporate environment?
I have doubts: leadership is a hot iron where laissez faire approaches are favoured. The cite from Kawasaki that he was "unpleasant and always scary" would surely give a today's Steve Jobs a date with HR.
A leader like Steve would be today called "toxic" and probably never promoted at all.
Local here.
We were told to enjoy about 60 additional freight trains per day.
The promised noise protection barriers were saved on due to budget after public voting went through.
Interestingly the ferry which is currently used to transport trucks is only at roughly half capacity.
It is a prestige project and I will have to move to some other place as I live next to the train tracks. These are used very sparingly today and are mostly not even electrified and one-tracked. Many wildlife refuges are on the way to move for the sake of the new tunnel.
The toys are one dimension of perceived and artificially created desires for the hoi polloi.
Please take into account that most of us humans are bound by various obligations. Be it the financial type, i.e. paying off your house for 30+ years or, even more captivating, creating substitutes for natural needs. Compare with the fact that most of us live isolated, especially in these times, without real world communication beyond chats, mail, telephone and, well, Hacker News. The lack of face to face opportunities to speak and do nonverbal communication is one of the causes for rising psychological diseases, drug abuse and antisocial behaviours in the last decade.
Our post Neolithic Revolution society is based on the concept of the ruler and the ruled. Why? Because having power is also a desire which may be the most destructive one for humanity in general.
We may be living on a punishment planet or simulation.
We are supposed to perform and add value to the world.
Not become mystics and monks.
That's the Zeitgeist slave's mentality.
Doing unhinged introspection with the help of booze or other drugs is frowned upon as you you will realise that are not living for others but yourself on our shared pale blue dot in your personal short glimpse of experienced history and reality.