Should You Rage Against the Machine?
Czerwiec 3rd, 2018
When 18th century weavers were threatened by technological advancements, they started destroying new-fangled technological innovations that would put them out of their jobs and allow much less skilled, cheaper workers to take over. Every few years since then, the Luddite movement would reappear in one form or another, whenever some automation made skilled manual labour obsolete. In the 21st century, the automation has gone far beyond ousting skilled workers. ALL human input or labour is about to become unnecessary. Should you worry? Should you prepare? Should you smash the nearest computer like a Luddite would a weaving machine? Read on to find out…
The Internet is full of advice on how to become an effective leader, but perhaps some lessons are best gleaned from practice. Some words of wisdom for you, then, based on real-life struggles of people working with bosses who are, perhaps, not yet the greatest… Read on!
GDPR is here and it was really hard to miss its coming. Each morning for the last few weeks you’d wake up and check your mail only to find you’ve been inundated with yet another slew of „Personal data privacy reminder” or similarly titled messages. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for a few months, here’s the scoop.
It’s not a happy Easter for everyone, as recent announcements from Toys R Us, an iconic American toy store, make it clear that it will shut down and close its doors very soon, after decades of selling the most important things you can give a child – pure happiness wrapped up in a cute form of a toy. Sadly, the days of going to the store to pick up another doll or action figure may be over not just for that company…
English! It’s the language of today and of tomorrow that you should speak if you wish to be understood… Except if you are a native speaker of English, it seems. Anglophones from the US, UK, Australia, Canada and several other countries should take a long look at how they use their mother tongue, as it was recently discovered that they are absolute worst at business communication. Read on…
