Strange New Work

著者: Tara McMullin
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  • Lots of people are talking about the future of work today: remote work, artificial intelligence, white-collar unions, robots, 4-day workweeks... But those things are either here already or will be soon. What about the far future of work? What alien advancements await the office of the future? This podcast wants to boldly go where no other future-of-work podcast has gone. Host Tara McMullin (What Works) brings this limited series about how speculative fiction can help us imagine strange new ways of working and understanding ourselves. We'll explore questions about how we can transform work to be more humane and inclusive. We'll imagine new ways of working together, managing the economy, and providing for others.
    © 2023 What Works
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Lots of people are talking about the future of work today: remote work, artificial intelligence, white-collar unions, robots, 4-day workweeks... But those things are either here already or will be soon. What about the far future of work? What alien advancements await the office of the future? This podcast wants to boldly go where no other future-of-work podcast has gone. Host Tara McMullin (What Works) brings this limited series about how speculative fiction can help us imagine strange new ways of working and understanding ourselves. We'll explore questions about how we can transform work to be more humane and inclusive. We'll imagine new ways of working together, managing the economy, and providing for others.
© 2023 What Works
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  • The Will to Share Power with Tania Luna
    2023/11/02

    Power. Some fear it. Others hoard it. Some with power speak softly. Others carry a big stick. Power is charisma, or coercion, or violence. Power is name recognition, or money, or computer code.

    Regardless of your definition or perceptions of it, power plays a critical role in how we work.

    Today, we explore power—what we can do with it, how we can grow it, and, critically, how we can share it—because power in the future of work will look very different than it does today.

    Footnotes:

    • Find out more about Tania Luna
    • Lead Together by Tania Luna
    • The Power Paradox by Dacher Keltner
    • The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
    • "The Lathe of Heaven" BBC film adaptation
    • "Mary Parker Follett—Creativity and Democracy" by Gary M. Nelson in Human Service Organizations
    • "There Is a Better Way to Use Power at Work. This Forgotten Business Guru Has the Secrets" by Matthew Barzun in Time Magazine
    • "Content Decision Making" via Sociocracy For All
    • Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
    • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
    • "A Band of Brothers, a Stream of Sisters" by Ursula K. Le Guin


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    33 分
  • The Most Undervalued Skill of the 21st-Century Economy
    2023/10/26

    What's the most undervalued skill of the 21st-century economy? Moderation.

    I very well might be forgetting something. But with more of our lives and work showing up online every day, the way our feeds, data, and connections are moderated is critical to our daily lives. Moderation can be many things—it's how platforms are designed, how content is incentivized or de-incentivized, and how communication between people is mediated. Some moderation is done structurally, some is done with code, but lots of moderation is done by real people all over the world.

    In this episode, I take a close look at the skill of moderation, its role in our evolving tech futures, and the politics that complicate this essential work.

    Footnotes:

    • "Welcome to hell, Elon" by Nilay Patel on The Verge
    • "Why Elon's Twitter is in the Sh*tter with Nilay Patel" on Offline with Jon Favreau
    • Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
    • Work Without the Worker by Phil Jones
    • "Content Moderation is Terrible by Design" featuring Sarah T. Roberts on Harvard Business Review
    • "Moderating Social Media" on the agenda on YouTube
    • "How Microwork is the Solution to War" by Ben Irwin on Preemptive Love
    • "Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge" by Scharon Harding
    • Rosie Sherry on tips for content moderation
    • "Neal Stephenson Explains His Vision for the Digital Afterlife" on PC Mag

    Love What Works? Become a premium subscriber for just $7 per month. Your subscription helps make my work sustainable and gets you access to twice-monthly This is Not Advice episodes, quarterly workshops, and more. Click here to learn more and preview the premium benefits!

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    35 分
  • Made for Work
    2023/10/19

    Find the work you were born to do. Do what you were meant to do. Discover the work that makes you feel alive.

    We've all heard these messages. Crack open any career, self-help, or personal development book on your shelf, and you're sure to find a similar message. It seems pretty convenient that our "purpose" in life is work, doesn't it?

    In this episode, I unpack the "made for work" message, take it to its logical sci-fi ends, and draw on a key idea in the sociology of work to consider how we might shape the next 40 years into something more humane.

    Footnotes:

    • "If you 'don't dream of labor,' should organize for socialism" by Caitlyn Clark for Jacobin
    • Embassytown by China Miéville
    • Translation State by Ann Leckie
    • The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
    • The New Spirit of Capitalism by Eve Chiapello & Luc Boltanski

    Love What Works? Become a premium subscriber for just $7 per month. Your subscription helps make my work sustainable and gets you access to twice-monthly This is Not Advice episodes, quarterly workshops, and more. Click here to learn more and preview the premium benefits!

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    28 分

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