Tag: humans

Reinventing the workplace, yawn.

Posted on by philipdodson

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There has been a lot of noise about the future of work and the reimagining or reinventing of workspace.

But is it really being transformed or has it just been prettified with beer on tap, hammocks, Fussball tables and a name change to sooth the real agenda of efficiencies?

Since people chiseled stones in caves around a fire until more recent times, the workplace was social and human. Then the industrial machine came, stripped out inefficiency, de-humanised it and made it the anti-social workplace.

Perhaps if we put the human factor back to the top of the list of priorities and not cost-effectiveness, then work could become a social and humane place/activity that inspires rather than enslaves or coerces people to perform shallow tasks to build other people’s dreams in a miserable emotional and physical environment.

Fish don’t know they’re in water

Posted on by philipdodson

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I was listening to a James Altucher podcast and his guest used a great quote ‘fish don’t know they’re in water’. They are surrounded by it and therefore they don’t see it.

The monoculture that has seemingly and happily been adopted by the human race en masse in the global village that our world has become, has led most to not see the ‘water’ they are in.

This is the danger of not being curious, not questioning, accepting and complying with the one voice, the one picture, you become blind to the real world.

This creates a distorted society where some humans matter and some don’t.

Jump out the water, maybe you’re not a fish.