https://archive.is/RJQQX https://archive.is/RJQQX tl;dr: people are "performing the doing of work" by making sure they look like they're active on slack and pa

https://archive.is/RJQQX https://archive.is/RJQQX tl;dr: people are "performing the doing of work" by making sure they look like they're active on slack and paying attention in zoominars. The "theater" of work is a thing that's become celebrated. My take: I think I've met plenty of people who've pretended to work, especially back when I did some work with government contractors. Even minor requests would take days to weeks to even get a reply. So I don't think this is anything new; we've just adapted to new ways to pretend to work. But: as someone running a bootstrapped startup, there's more actual "doing" now than there ever was. Gone are the "networking opportunities" where you go out for real meetings. It's all zoominars now, which means there's more time to get stuff done (or more likely, get burnt out, then tricking myself I'm being productive)