Kyle Monteiro

100% agree with everything you say here. I strongly recommend: https://deardesignstudent.com/a-designers-code-of-ethics-f4a88aca9e95 and: https://medium.com/@monteiro/designs-lost-generation-ac7289549017 from someone who's done _way_ more thinking about these sorts of issues than I have...

Thanks Modo_! This is definitely oriented a bit more around "manager's schedule" (we love that PG post too and are building Reclaim with the manager in mind) and the idea that in addition to the "in-between" time you mention (i.e., "Working", "Focus Time", etc.) managers tend to need high-quality meetings and events that serve their priorities. Per your point, you could definitely map "working" or "blocked out" time to priorities. Doesn't have to be a meeting, but by having your free time actually represent a concrete objective, we've found it makes it less interruptible by your peers. Paul Monteiro has a great post about this concept of mapping events -- regardless of whether they're meetings or not -- here (https://medium.com/@monteiro/the-chokehold-of-calendars-f70bb9221b36) and we did our own take on it here (https://blog.reclaimai.com/posts/2019-07-16-is-a-busy-calendar-bad/). Thanks much for commenting and providing feedback! Henry

Facebook's come under a lot of heat for refusing to moderate the buying and selling of firearms in Groups, often in violation of local laws[1]. Hopefully their moderation standards will be higher on Marketplace. [1]: https://medium.com/@monteiro/this-article-first-appeared-in-boing-boin…

I wasn't expecting such a long answer, but thank you for it because it is a rather unique point of view in my filter bubble. First, yes the difference between survey tools and communication tools is always confusing for me in the privacy debate. But ultimately, they are deeply linked [2] with many cases that fall in between. In particular, the surveillance of communication tools is incredibly pervasive. > double so when I'm a guest Yes, when I was in China, I was more careful to approach discussions with an open mind and cautiousness for the legal repercussions. However, I'm not talking about being a guest, I'm talking about either being a citizen or an outsider. In both cases I think it's very important to think critically and express the potentially resulting criticism. (More below) > So you're judging WeChat but what gives you the right? Certainly not the CCP, lol. But seriously, more than WeChat/Tencent, which is just another interesting tech company, I'm judging the state control over it. And more than judging (but which I'm also doing), I'm formulating criticism based on observations of harm to people (I consider it evident that shutting up would be immoral) and (but this is our main point of disagreement) mind control by the state. > Assange, Snowden, went too far. It seems your threshold might be the word of law, but in that case they exposed illicit state actions. In any case, they did go far. To say they were co-opted is only partly true if not outright…

I've read this article about 4 times in the last few hours, and there's so much to say about it -- partly because it resonates pretty deeply with the product I'm currently building (reclaimai.com, apologies for the shameless plug) but also because I think it flies in the face of some logic that has emerged over the past several years. Namely, that meetings are anathema to productive organizations and that individualized "focus time" is the only way to achieve meaningful outcomes (see: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html). The quote that sticks out to me the most: > Some people will assert that meetings are creativity killers, and “a camel is a horse designed by committee”. But this is absurd. We’ve all been in conversations where one idea sparks another. And while an individual can write a novel or paint a portrait, solo creativity is no way to produce nuclear fusion or a new antibiotic. In a world full of specialists, complex projects require collaboration. Meetings can and do generate ideas that no individual could have conceived alone. They do not do so automatically, however. (emphasis mine) Managers, in particular, need to internalize this ideology: if you're responsible for leading a broad group of highly-motivated-but-disparate individuals, your fundamental role is collaboration, analysis, collation, and decisionmaking. Not every instance of collaboration needs to take the form of a meeting, but as the author indicates, "there are many situations in which…