The will allow every worker to work from home 2-4 days a week, and come into the office 1-2 days a week
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I spoke to 1,000+ companies over the last 6 months about their plans for remote work going forward
Here are a few things I've learned
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The will allow every worker to work from home 2-4 days a week, and come into the office 1-2 days a week
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Companies who don't will lose people to companies who do
Companies doing this have seen their workers decentralize rapidly, leaving expensive cities to be closer to family
Rather than hiring the best person in a 30-mile radius of the office, they can hire the best person in the world for every role
Rather than spending $20,000 / worker / year on office space they can provide the best remote setup on the planet for $2,000 / worker / year
Their biggest concern is that workers burnout because they are working too hard
They are actively exploring ways to combat this
Expect this number to begin at 2 days every 13 weeks and grow closer to 5 days every 13 weeks
The most popular we hear is flying the team into remote locations for ~week. Portugal, Spain, Puerto Rico seem to be the most popular
The most exciting companies I know personally all plan to hire remotely this decade
~90% of the workforces we've spoken to never want to be in an office again full-time
The majority of companies have replicated the office remotely and it is causing strains that are beginning to show
Expect this to remedy this quickly by providing better, ergonomic equipment to workers
108 million tons of Co2 less every year
Almost every company we talk to believes that their workers will be happier as a result of remote work
There is a fear inside companies that if they don't go remote they will lose their best people to their competitors
Increasingly individuals will be given the power to choose the software tools they want to use to do their job
Work designed for the individual rather than the collective
The measure of performance while working remotely has to become output. Tools that enable this to be tracked more accurately are something we are asked for a lot
Companies are searching for ways to do this more effectively. Tools that enable others to write better will explode
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i wonder if you can make a thread bout witchcraft in malaysia.. or list of our own local gods/deites..
— r a y a \U0001f319 (@lcvelylilith) February 20, 2020
Before I begin, it might be worth explaining the Malay conception of the spirit world. At its deepest level, Malay religious belief is animist. All living beings and even certain objects are said to have a soul. Natural phenomena are either controlled by or personified as spirits
Although these beings had to be respected, not all of them were powerful enough to be considered gods. Offerings would be made to the spirits that had greater influence on human life. Spells and incantations would invoke their
Animist ceremonies of a religious or magical nature were normally held for the purpose of divination or making a request. This would either be done at a keramat or at a shrine similar to the Thai spirit houses or Chinese roadside shrines pic.twitter.com/I1hliyi0x3
— \u2745\u1710\u170b\u1713\u170e (@uglyluhan) June 16, 2019
Two known examples of such elemental spirits that had god-like status are Raja Angin (king of the wind) and Mambang Tali Arus (spirit of river currents). There were undoubtedly many more which have been lost to time
Contact with ancient India brought the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism to SEA. What we now call Hinduism similarly developed in India out of native animism and the more formal Vedic tradition. This can be seen in the multitude of sacred animals and location-specific Hindu gods
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This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
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— Greg Wester (@gwestr) November 25, 2018
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.