Tag: culture

All the articles with the tag "culture".

• Hard Disagree: 'Nothing Worse Than a Donkey With Initiative'

  Published: Sep 10, 2025
  · 1 min read

  Someone posted the old saying 'nothing worse than a donkey with initiative' in a WhatsApp group. Hard disagree. If you're hiring people, give them space to create. If you want robots, AI already exists.

• 996: The Work Culture I Hate That's Spreading Through Silicon Valley

  Published: Sep 6, 2025
  · 1 min read

  996 means working from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week. It started in Chinese tech startups and is apparently now spreading to San Francisco with the AI boom. I really hope it doesn't catch on here.

• Did You Know the Word 'Work' Literally Comes from 'Torture'?

  Published: Aug 30, 2025
  · 2 min read

  The word 'trabajo' (work in Spanish) comes from 'tripalium,' a Roman torture device. We've been telling ourselves to work, work, work for millennia. Maybe it's time to tell ourselves something different.