Lab ratsDaniel Lyons
Lab rats
by Daniel Lyons · first published 2018
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Examines how the ideas of Silicon Valley and its "new oligarchs" have changed work culture, making employees subject to constant change, dehumanizing technologies, and even health risks, and discusses how to restore the social contract between employers and employees.
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I highly highly recommend Lab Rats by Dan Lyons. Dissects the forces behind the current state of the workforce in the US. Very well written and exposes the brutality and destruction resulting from focusing on short term profit at any…
on “We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage” ↗You’ll love Lab Rats by Dan Lyons. Highly recommended.
on “Over a Third of Americans Battle Job Burnout Every Single Week” ↗Maybe “So I decide to start hiring prioritizing these characteristics along with individual ability?” As for capitalism and productivity I highly recommend Dan Lyons’ Lab Rats exposing the complete chaos that human management is in. People dynamics are complex and well, dynamic. Changes and rules carry potential for difficult to predict outcomes. Humans are not hens and capitalism…
on “Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High” ↗I’d like to recommend Dan Lyons’ Lab Rats which dissects American corporate culture and its negative influence on employees. Dan Lyons wrote the fake Steve Jobs blog, Disrupted, and was one of the writers on Silicon Valley.
on “Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick” ↗…this statement is simply reversed nowadays AND people don't make an effort to change it. They do. https://www.kaporcapital.com/ https://socialenterpriseinstitute.co/ https://bcorporation.net/ In the "Lab rats"[1] Dan Lyons tried to give a perspective on the "new kind of capitalism" after he gave a perspective on the current state of the Silicon Valley capitalism. Links above are from his book. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Lab-Rats-Silicon-Valley-Miserable/dp/...
on “What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft” ↗…and SV in general. Besides writing for the TV show, he's also written several books about why technology and SV really, really suck and are to blame for practically everything wrong in the world (e.g. Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us). Oddly, he did actually try to work at a high-tech startup on the east coast, and when he was booted out for incompetence, he wrote a book about…
on “The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later” ↗Dan Lyons, one of the writers of the show recently wrote a new book titled "Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us ..."
on “If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley” ↗…easy way to just make people "be better" I found this sentiment echoed in an RSA video, just this morning: https://youtu.be/o5CTxckRywg So, in the future, you can attribute it to Dan Lyons, author of "Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us".
on “Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK beaches: study” ↗