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• “Ball Point Game” on YouTube
• Why now? Why has the workplace become a cross between a kindergarten and a Scientology assessment center? Why do our offices now have decor that looks like a Montessori preschool, with lots of bright, basic colors? Why does work now involve such infantilization?
• Your office has become a psychology laboratory, run by a bunch of quacks. You’re not a duck. You’re a lab rat.
• Silicon Valley now aims to remake the notion of the corporation itself, by inventing radical new ideas about how to build and manage companies.
• The good news is that in the course of my journey I also discovered people who are pushing back against these changes that are hurting workers and wreaking havoc on society. In Oakland, Chicago, New York, Boston, and elsewhere, entrepreneurs are forming companies that put the needs of employees first. These companies pay well, sometimes more than t...