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If you have to get up at 4am to get any work done, your workplace is broken. If you’re the CEO doing this, why aren’t you fixing your broken workplace rather than running away from it?
Accepting that work can’t happen at work is productivity bankruptcy. It’s time to restructure your processes and principles. Dump your toxic liabilities and invest in some healthy habits.
Allowing work to happen at work during normal work hours is the cornerstone of how we get so much done at Basecamp. How we can get by with 50-some employees while others need 3-5x that to service the same number of customers. It’s a productivity secret hiding in plain sight.
It’s also the most important message in It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work. Getting up at 4am just so you can hide from your organization is the definition of crazy. It doesn’t have to be that way. Please learn how. basecamp.com/books/calm
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There are only two choices here!! Either we accept, and even encourage, all abuse coming from the leaders of companies we like, or those companies simply cannot exit. You don't like bosses abusing workers? NO ELECTRIC CARS FOR YOU! NO IPHONE FOR YOU.
There's of course also another way: We stop protecting abusive bosses from criticism, they learn that it becomes hard to raise money/hire smart people/get good press acting as an asshole, THEY WISE UP AND CHANGE THEIR WAYS ✨
It's beyond infantilizing to presume that smart people like Musk or Jobs were at once both so capable of learning and adapting in business and technology, but utterly incapable of changing their abusive workplace behavior.
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Predictim‘s black-box algorithm analyzes babysitters‘ social media accounts, reducing them to a single fit score. Beyond disgusting. Downright evil.

Social media algorithms prod you to be the worst/fake you can be, hiring algorithms reject you for it. washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
Just listen to the Predictum CEO’s approach to the privacy issue with invading every single social-media account of the babysitters: “If we ever leaked a babysitter’s info, that would not be cool”.

Is this a joke? You couldn’t have drawn a more callous, stereotypical techbro.
But it gets worse. Listen to all the parents so eager to employ this unaccountable, hellscape of an algorithm: “100 percent of the parents are going to want to use this,” she added. “We all want the perfect babysitter.”
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It’s utterly unbecoming to see Amazon extract such blatant loot from HQ2 cities. Why the fuck does Amazon need government handouts? Bezos, as literally the richest man in the world, presiding over this is shameful.
I can’t say that having Jeff as a minority stakeholder in Basecamp feels good at the moment. We haven’t spoken with him in years, but I know what topics I’d like to bend his ear on if we get another chance.
How about a little less TOTAL DOMINATION, and just a tad more civic responsibility? This maximum extraction and municipal capture seems utterly shortsighted, even on business merits alone. Serving up the antitrust case on a platter. Stoking justified populist anger.
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To help you get 2019 off to a strong start, here are my top productivity hacks, advice and tips assembled over 20 years of personal focus on improving productivity.

#productivity #HappyNewYear2019 #workplace
2/ Every night, right before you sleep, write down the top 3 things you need to do tomorrow AND anything that is bothering you.

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This all started because the #MetPolice & #LBRUT couldn't do their day jobs properly & decided to take the law into their own hands. It started as a small cover up 12 years ago but has turned into British State Persecution.

#Skynews #BBCNews #DailyMail #Guardian #Euronews
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#Guardian #Telegraph #DailyMail #GMB #UK
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Welcome to the #Metpolice who also changed & falsified my arrest details. Have a look at the evidence here ukcoverup.com/arrest-details as it's all easy to prove & that's why it's never addressed

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