Readit NewsMine tends to be stream of consciousness, just one level above brain-dumping on scratchpaper, until I hit on something I want to explore. Then it becomes more structured (and sometimes ends up very structured indeed in mindmaps or various project folders, etc).
It works great for me. I get ideas down in useful forms. I don't have to continually consciously think on ideas to keep them alive, reducing cognitive load. I have a tool for effective reflection. I feel like it's helped me lead a more intentional life. Simple as that.
These companies aren't laying off labor that have few choices. They're budding off knowlegible competetors.
If these folks can't find a well paying job it's a very real option to create a well-performing company.
All the laid off employees will take low compensation somewhere. Every time a good opportunity opens up (1+ year from now), all these low comp people will jump at it, suppressing the wage of that job.
Hard to imagine how long it will take for that effect to disappear, need a stock market boom or low rates again
Besides, the market is still super tight and shows very few signs of loosening.
What we're seeing is that the old-guard companies have hit their autumn years. But companies being companies autumn could last for decades.
I think we had too much talent dedicated to some of these sectors anyway. There's a lot of interesting problems out there that could use more attention.
For one, are you really saving costs when you're losing some individuals with deep knowledge of the job for which you would need to re-train a new individual to come up to the same speed and productivity as with the previous person doing the job?
Doesn't this also make productive / talented / hardworking people shy away from your job posting when they know that your company recently laid off employees?
I declined.
I'm a software architect but I strongly believe that the organization of people is as important as the organization of software. So architects and principals, to be the most effective, should have management authority. Middle management, if done well, makes or breaks mid to large software companies. An organization that doesn't deeply respect that role isn't anywhere I want to be.
An organization who has incentives aligned with providing journalism for the people?
I think the entire hiring/search process is so broken. Different applications, formats. Don't get me started on having to fill out sections in a form that are just resume sections (work experience, schools etc.).
Going across big VC firm portfolio openings also super fragmented. It's opened my eyes to how awful the process of hiring is from both sides.
Doing consulting/contract work, advisory, and side projects as I hang on cofounder matching and apply to jobs on workatastartup, wellfound, and linkedin. Pretty dismal job search process.
I haven't been laid off but I've been dipping my toe in the past few months because I'm a bit bored in my current role.
The process is much more fiddly than it needs to be. When I run into those 'fill this out again for our system' forms, often times it's after a long day and I will just save it to come back to it later...and I never do.
I wonder how much talent mobility there'd be if someone really solved the issues of repetative job search data entry and just proving to strangers that you can excel in a role without running through an obstacle course that may or may not represent the actual job.
I'd be interested to know if we're in an element rich vein of the wider universe or if all the good stuff is more or less evenly distributed?
It's telling that Jane Street stayed away from the whole mess despite the connection.