Metadata
- Author: Westenberg
- Full Title:: Modern Work Fucking Sucks.
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/modern-work-fucking-sucks/
- Finished date:: 2024-12-09
Highlights
By the time Friday rolls around, you’ve done nothing tangible, produced nothing meaningful, and yet you’re exhausted — an entire week spent shuffling bits of information between fifteen different systems, each charging a tidy $15 per month, per user, for the privilege of making you feel productive. (View Highlight)
You’re called into a Zoom call to discuss the updates you wrote in Notion about the tasks you logged in Trello. Half the attendees aren’t paying attention because they’re already drowning in Slack messages from the last meeting they were in, and the other half are trying to share their screens but can’t figure out how to unmute themselves. (View Highlight)
Is there any escape from the tyranny of modern work tools? Maybe, but it won’t happen without a fundamental rethinking of how we approach work itself. It would mean prioritizing outcomes over optics, substance over style. It would mean asking hard questions about which tools actually help and which ones just add noise. It would mean pushing back against the culture of constant updates, endless meetings, and performative busyness. (View Highlight)
For now, we’re stuck in an absurd cycle, where the only thing more exhausting than the work is pretending to do the work. Every week begins with the best of intentions and ends with you staring at a dozen half-finished tasks scattered across a dozen different platforms, wondering what the hell you actually accomplished. And deep down, you already know the answer: not much. (View Highlight)
Esto en los equipos que somos “de servicio”, ni te cuento. Pero no creo que sea cosa de las herramientas (que pueden fragmentar más o menos), si no de falta de foco estructural, de no aceptar que el tiempo es finito y que hay que escoger. Es decir… Patchwork 10.