Career Pathing
medium.com/career-pathing · Group blog · on HN since 2013
A Medium publication collecting personal essays on careers, founding companies, job searching, and the nature of work.
What HN saysHN commenters give little opinion on the publication itself; they discuss the essays' themes of project failures, blame, and automation of tedious jobs.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Raising Entrepreneurs2 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 2Why Work As We Know It May Be Immoral2 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 3You work with people or How I stopped the flame war and learned to play nicely2 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 4Oh, I’m not a… — Medium1 people · 52 points · first shared 2013 · 45 comments on HN
- 5Why I am working on Artificial General Intelligence1 people · 17 points · first shared 2013 · 10 comments on HN
- 65 days to decide whether you're ready to found1 people · 9 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7From Jefferies to Wanelo: My 2.5-Year "Job Search"1 people · 8 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 8How I Built My Art Career and Learned to Hate It.1 people · 7 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 9I’m leaving academia1 people · 6 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 10Be the founder of your own college experience1 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11How To Hack Your Way To Your Dream Job1 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12The best books, blogs and more from four years studying marketing at Google1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13Sagmeister: are you ready to take one year off every 7 working years?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 14How Much Loyalty Do We Owe Our Employers?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · 6 comments on HN
- 15Things I learned in my first 3 years out of college1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
exodust · 2013-04-20
Agreed. And I think the article is less about "Steve Jobs" and more about the lessons to be learned from high-level project difficulties, and the people on the ground caught up in the line of fire when things don't go to plan. Or, when blame is unleashed unjustly from management, whose plan was flawed in the beginning, or whose chain of command failed to notice the red flags raised along the way.
The other article on her blog is also worth a look, and a good reminder about communication in the workplace. "How to handle conflict"....
https://medium.com/career-pathing/a713b75ad9bd
ryukafalz · 2014-05-24
Reading things like this makes me kind of sad, because I feel like it really shouldn't be this way. Hopefully, with the advent of more sophisticated automation, many of our more tedious jobs won't need humans to do them.
I tend to be of the opinion that creating jobs for the sake of creating jobs is a bad thing. If we get to the point where society can persist without everyone having a job, why make people work to survive?
There's an interesting article along these lines here: https://medium.com/career-pathing/463ff6dfec1b
The point here is that this would enable people to follow their dreams if they chose to, and not die of starvation in the process. If you still wanted to work, that's not a problem, and you'd make more money that way - but you wouldn't die if you chose not to do so.
For that matter, we might be able to achieve this now with a basic income system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Discussion at http://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/