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Category: General

  • the theology of capital

    The primary product sold by all management consultants – both software developers and strategic organisers – is the theology of capital. This holds that workers are expendable. They can be replaced by machines, or by harder-working employees grateful they weren’t let go in the last round of redundancies. Managers are necessary to the functioning of…

  • revenant meme

    Blog memes: they were a thing in the Noughties, y’know. [grandpa-simpson.gif] Now Matt Webb’s bringin’ sexy back*, and I figure, why the hell not, given it’s books, and I can’t resist a humblebrag about books. So, four questions: How many books do you own? I can’t cite a precise number, but I can state a…

  • payin’ the dues

    It’s been one hell of a year. Those of you who’ve been following along will know that in addition to actually finishing my Marie Curie postdoc at Lund—or, perhaps more accurately, coming to the end of the duration of my Marie Curie funding; the project itself looks set to have some sort of continuing existence…

  • hurry up and wait

    In response to a question from L____, I decided that I’m not really sure how I’m feeling at the moment—which is less due to any lack of feeling or insight, and more due to a scrum of competing feelings and concerns, some of which have hung in the balance for the better part of a…

  • complaints of a reluctant LARPer

    Talking to an old friend about LinkedIn the other day, said friend described it as “business LARP”. The topic came up because, as a person who is easing themselves back into the searching-for-gainful-employment game, I am now obliged to engage with LinkedIn: in Sweden, it’s basically the default platform through which almost all recruitment takes…