#knowledgeworker — Public Fediverse posts

"Among my #KnowledgeWorker peers, I am hearing this more and more often: people who want to pick up pottery, painting, crochet or other old-timey #analoghobbies. In coffee shops and in the low-lit corners of bars, professionals are sharing dreams of “disappearing” or “living on a farm somewhere” or “going off the grid.” These aren’t fantastical daydreams; they are visions of escape shared in a tone that betrays an underlying existential angst, a fundamental doubt about #work and #careerism inspired by a seemingly increasingly common experience: waking up one morning at an existential precipice, struck with a sudden sense that knowledge work is, and perhaps always has been, pointless. Perhaps you too have felt such a feeling, a rising tide of overwhelming, indescribable melancholy, slowly threatening to envelop you in your Ikea office chair."

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/

@skaphle @lproven I guess you do have a nerdy point of view as a #knowledgeworker and tech enthusiast.

Liam is not writing about us.

He's writing about the majority of people. People who don't enjoy adapting to tech in order to be fast, efficient and fix it exactly as wished. People who currently type URLs in their google search bar (default view of new tabs). People who have tons of "Unnamed (3).docx" directly on their desktop. People who think that a tool doesn't come with a clipboard functionality when they don't see Copy/Cut/Paste as familiar icons (or menu entries). People who collect lots of duplicates over time because they forgot that they've got that file already somewhere. People with rarely working information retrieval processes.

Tech people will, e.g., probably always prefer CLI over #GUI. You won't get any acceptance for that outside of IT departments.

And I also enjoyed #PalmOS much more than #Android. #DateBk3 was more advanced than almost anything #PIM nowadays.

#Meme-Mittwoch:

Der für die veränderte Arbeitsweise mit #KCS benötigte Zeitaufwand für die #Knowledgeworker wird weithin überschätzt.

»#OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for #specialized #AIagents: a #knowledgeworker agent, will be priced at $2,000, a #softwaredeveloper agent at $10,000.« https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/openai-reportedly-plans-to-charge-up-to-20000-a-month-for-specialized-ai-agents/?eicker.news #tech #media

@samhainnight @monkeyflower
Y’all thought #SurveillanceCapitalism was going to permit the #KnowledgeWorker to leverage #RemoteWork without getting something in return?

@futurebird I think that this is another thing that activitypub can be made to do in addition to all the stuff it already takes the form of

I think there’s a bit of a need for a work from home but ‘check in’ sort of arrangement which isn’t the conventional microboggling thoroughly time wasting meaningless noise that exists already on the fediverse (that we’re all here for all day anyway)

It has to be something that’s a bit more continuous and serious, but not so serious that it resembles linked in, and it’d have to be mostly for logging time and achievements and starring other people’s achievements and time/effort spent

It’d be like a sort of calendar and timesheet but fun, it’d have to be not like a real job (in that if I want to put a masturbation break in the time sheet, it’s allowed) but it should be something that one would take at least a bit seriously and not just forget it exists after having hilarious fun with it for a few days of absurdity then nothing

It’d be networky, in that it’s all very well logging your own time but there’s a lot of leverage in being slightly accountable (~0.5%?) to other people because you said you were going to do something and did

It could also be a sort of help / problem removal platform but that’s not the main thing (or who knows, maybe it might)

But it won’t in most ways resemble being on mastodon, yet it’s activitypub

#activitypub #accountability #workFromHome #freelance #writer #artist #publisher #knowledgeWorker #timeLogging #calendar #work

@futurebird I think that this is another thing that activitypub can be made to do in addition to all the stuff it already takes the form of

I think there’s a bit of a need for a work from home but ‘check in’ sort of arrangement which isn’t the conventional microboggling thoroughly time wasting meaningless noise that exists already on the fediverse (that we’re all here for all day anyway)

It has to be something that’s a bit more continuous and serious, but not so serious that it resembles linked in, and it’d have to be mostly for logging time and achievements and starring other people’s achievements and time/effort spent

It’d be like a sort of calendar and timesheet but fun, it’d have to be not like a real job (in that if I want to put a masturbation break in the time sheet, it’s allowed) but it should be something that one would take at least a bit seriously and not just forget it exists after having hilarious fun with it for a few days of absurdity then nothing

It’d be networky, in that it’s all very well logging your own time but there’s a lot of leverage in being slightly accountable (~0.5%?) to other people because you said you were going to do something and did

It could also be a sort of help / problem removal platform but that’s not the main thing (or who knows, maybe it might)

But it won’t in most ways resemble being on mastodon, yet it’s activitypub

#activitypub #accountability #workFromHome #freelance #writer #artist #publisher #knowledgeWorker #timeLogging #calendar #work

step 0: #knowledgework ✔️ done

step 1: remote/distributed #knowledgework ✔️ done

step 2: autonomous machines acting as knowedge workers 🔄 in progress

step 3: mixed #knowledgeworker teams with humans and machines 🔜 next

Exciting news from #BetaCodex Press!
https://www.redforty2.com/post/in-may-betacodex-press-will-release-its-2nd-book-of-quotes-what-would-drucker-do

#betacodexpress #drucker #whatwoulddruckerdo #peterdrucker #peterfdrucker #leadership #management #businessbook #businessbooks #quotes #lean #agile #teal #newwork #futureofleadership #knowledge #knowledgeworker #sustainability #driuckerforum

When I first got into making a #DigitalGarden, I loved it primarily because of its attitude to performativity on the web. "Just write, stop fussing on your blog drafts", I kept seeing. "There are people who fanny around on their personal sites, and people who actually add value with their words". I wanted to be in the right group, like so many others. After all, I'm a #KnowledgeWorker.

@Krita This is the wave of the near-future. I bet similar "insta-scraping" will be done by all commercial "knowledge worker" tools, e.g., Word, Visual Studio, Figma, etc. What was "instrumentation" justified to find bugs is grist for the deep-learning mill. #AIEthics #SoftwareDevelopment #Instrumentation #Writing #KnowledgeWorker #Creatives