La majorité des salariés passent par le chômage indemnisé au cours de leur carrière.

Dans un article récent, le sociologue Mathieu Grégoire soulignait que la "fuite" des données de France travail concernait 48 millions de personnes passées par l'institution au cours des dernières décennies.

Il en conclut donc que la plupart des personnes passent par le chômage durant leur carrière.

You see, most of these books on productivity come from places of privilege. They are authored by people who either control their task lists or, quite often, occupy positions where they are no longer burdened by one. The problem is that most of us, the mere mortals who consume these books, do not sit in this graceful position.

As I said at the start, there will always be more work, and that's a good thing to keep moving and stay motivated. However, there comes a point when it becomes too much, the plate is piled too high, and there is no room to breathe. Drowning in tasks is a terrible way to go.

Putting it another way, your work can only be as interesting as your problems.

• Forget your last job
• Add value from the start: how to improve the onboarding process
• Ask a lot of questions
  • trivial with quick answers
  • not trivial with an in-depth answert that gives a lot of context
  • completely nontrivial and no one had ever asked it.
• Have uncomfortable meetings with your manager
• Things are there for a reason
• Get context
• Socialize

How to ramp up quickly?

The first step is to find someone on the team and ask for 30 minutes with them. In that meeting you have a simple agenda:

• For the first 25 minutes: ask them to tell you everything they think you should know. Take copious notes. Only stop them to ask about things you don’t understand. Always stop them to ask about things you don’t understand.
• For the next 3 minutes: ask about the biggest challenges the team has right now.
• In the final 2 minutes: ask who else you should talk to. Write down every name they give you.

Repeat the above process for every name you're given. Don’t stop until there are no new names.

I'm sorry, did you forget the last 200 years of technological progress advancing productivity yet leading us to work even longer hours? If we want to work less, we need unions, not tech.

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As author Sam Harris said, “In a world of true abundance, you shouldn’t have to work to justify your life.”

UBI stands for Universal Basic Income.

Proponents of UBI — and I count myself among them — argue that it offers a safety net that enables individuals to pursue education, start businesses, or engage in creative endeavours without the fear of financial ruin, creating a more innovative, entrepreneurial, and dynamic society.

UBI is grounded in the principle of shared prosperity and the intrinsic value of each individual, irrespective of their economic contribution.

Experiments in Finland and Canada have shown that providing a basic income does not significantly diminish people’s desire to work. Instead, it affords them the flexibility to pursue work that is meaningful and suited to their skills rather than being trapped in the cycle of low-paying or unsatisfying jobs.

With a correct basic income, you can safely strive for the progress of humanity.

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

When I asked myself that question I realized I should be working for myself, building things that help people, consulting with people to help them, and putting that content into the world somehow.

Daniel Miessler runs Unsupervised Learning, so he's building the platform. He's doing some consulting and advising related to customers for a service company. He also has the podcast and newsletter :)

The result from all of this is that the promise of going to school, getting a stable job at a company, and having some sort of future from that is—or at least feels—more tenuous than ever.

I believe that the time for being identified by—and tied to—corporate jobs is passing, and it’s time to transition to what comes next

Think about work like a relationship. It’s hard to be a good partner if you’re not first healthy and independent on your own.

Le stage doit être rémunéré après la 3è. Un thread.

Si cela vous est refusé ⛔ c'est qu'on ne compte pas vous utiliser sérieusement et que vous avez de grande chance de vous faire lourder pendant votre stage car on a pas réellement besoin de vous derrière 🤡

Pour les freelances, inclure une partie dédiée aux réunions.
Accepter les entretiens techniques avec le client final uniquement et refuser les période

En tant que développeur salarié, quand vous souhaitez changer de poste, n'acceptez pas de passer des entretiens qui durent plus d'une heure.

Cela coûte trop et autant éviter le travail déguisé s'il fait "faut faire ses preuves".

Un exemple du fourvoiement du terme de médiateur.

Avis opposé au métier passion:

Anne-Genthialon figurait évidemment dans la première catégorie, mais l’argent demeure tabou dans les métiers passion. Les retards de paiement, les minorations… Tout cela, il faut le taire sous peine de ne pas être assez cool, de rater le CDI pour ces raisons.

Et l’autrice de raconter comment sa mère ne comprend pas l’absence de CDI après la meilleure école de journalisme et l’enjoint à envoyer son CV à Ruth Elkrief

4 burners where all of the 4 can not coexist: Family, Friends, Health, Work

The Four Burners Theory says that “in order to be successful you have to cut off one of your burners. And in order to be really successful you have to cut off two.”

Workarounds

1. Outsource Burners

It does not work well for family, friends and health at some point...

2. Embrace Constraints

Optimise everything. Assuming a particular set of constraints, how can I be as effective as possible?

Embracing constraints means accepting that you are operating at less than your full potential. Yes, there are plenty of ways to “work smarter, not harder” but it is difficult to avoid the fact that where you spend your time matters. If you invested more time into your health or your relationships or your career, you would likely see improved results in that area.

3. The season of life

What if, instead of searching for perfect work-life balance at all times, you divided your life into seasons that focused on a particular area?

Furthermore, there is often a multiplier effect that occurs when you dedicate yourself fully to a given area. In many cases, you can achieve more by going all-in on a given task for a few years than by giving it a lukewarm effort for fifty years. Maybe it is best to strive for seasons of imbalance and rotate through them as needed.

« La glorification de l'efficacité en toutes circonstances est une valeur qui sert en premier lieu les intérêts du capital, en nous poussant à considérer notre propre existence comme une machine productive qu'il faut donc sans cesse optimiser, pour réduire à leurs minimums les temps d'inactivité, d'inefficacité, d'improductivité. »

Pas faux.

faire les choses comme on veut les faire, pas pour être efficace, pas pour être productif, mais parce que ça nous procure de la joie.

Some principles:

1. Work on something that matters to you more than money.
2. Create more value than you capture.
3. Take the long view. →There is no small here. (read the story about it)

You should regard money as fuel for what you really want to do, not as a goal in and of itself

That’s why a time like this, when the bubble is bursting, is a great time to see how important it is to think about the big picture, and what matters not just to us, but to building a sustainable economy in a sustainable world.

L'industrie où tu travailles détermines en grande partie ta rémunération potentielle.

Shopify vs Carrefour en 2021 :

• CA : 4,61B$ vs 81,25B€
• Bénéfices : 2,91B$ vs 1,07B€
• CA/Bénef : 63% vs 1,3%
• Employés : 10k vs 320k
• Bénef/Employé : 291k$ vs 3343,75€