The Hidden Cost: work that holds cultural organisations together, yet never appears in a job description.
Ash Mann Sent
An in-depth survey of digital professionals in museums, galleries, theatres, archives and cultural support bodies.
SHELF No. 14
Better at Work
How to work better, job insecurities, job and career advice
PREVIOUSLY FILED
A Society That Runs on Stimulants is Badly Broken
Current Affairs Sent
“Like many forms of human misery, forcing yourself to stay awake is a multibillion-dollar industry.”
Mediocrity at Scale
The Saturday Essay (Justin Welsh / Substack) Sent
She put in the kind of work no automation could produce.
How To Thrive At Work When You Think Too Much
The Beautiful Mess (Substack) Sent
Do you recognize any of these "games" being played inside your org?
Bud Caddell Filed
Someone gains influence by attaching themselves to a popular person.
How to Find People
Being in Space (Nitzan Hermon) Filed
Break one habit your network has you filed under.
Opinionated advice for 2026 graduates
jasmi.news (@jasmine's Substack) Sent
“Become the good hang ... Relationships are how you’ll escape the hellfire of a thousand-person LinkedIn resume stack.”
What strategy directors expect from your AI skills
Rob Salmon Sent
Familiarity is no longer a flex, it's the floor.
Thinking Tools
Wikiversity Sent
A collection of tools that are useful in creative problem solving which generally follows the steps of clarify, ideate, develop, and implement.
Value creation, bullshit jobs and the future of work
Seth's Blog Sent
“Figure out who is seeking value and create it for them.”
After AI stole his clients, one Big Tech ghostwriter is using AI to get them back
Fortune Sent
“What can the future look like for me?”
Guide Yourself by the Stars and Not the Passing Ships
Rishad Tobaccowala Sent
Expertise will matter less while curiosity and particularly resilience will matter more.
Don't Crowd My Screen: Etiquette For...
Rafe Needleman Sent
If you didn’t create the doc, you’re a guest in someone else’s kitchen. Act accordingly.
In an always-on culture, employees try 'microshifting' to reclaim personal lives
Associated Press Sent
“Sometimes the break’s when most of the work will get done in your head, because you’re not sitting in front of a laptop just staring at a screen going, ‘I can’t come up with anything,”
Creative Career Conundrums: What can juniors do to compete with AI?
It's Nice That Sent
“Junior talent will always be necessary ... for providing fresh perspective.”
Hot Streaks in Your Career Don't Happen by Accident
The Atlantic Sent
“Our data shows that people ought to explore a bunch of things at work, deliberate about the best fit for their skills, and then exploit what they’ve learned”
Bed of Nails
Joe Burns Sent
Organisations tend to drift, by human bias and default, towards Pointies at the top and Softies underneath.
Monotasking: Inside the Box Excerpt
The Atlantic Sent
Constraints push the brain beyond its default tendencies, forcing deeper problem-solving
Beware software brain
The Verge Sent
“You can't advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences”
Marketing engineers are the hire of 2026
Marvin Chow Sent
“Marketing engineers are the hire of 2026. period.”
AI will make your marketing team faster and worse
The Tenon Sent
A sharp take on how AI acceleration might compromise marketing quality and strategic thinking
Are You Coal or a Horse? The AI Job Paradox
The Atlantic Sent
“When technology leads to huge numbers of jobs disappearing quickly, bad things happen”
The Semantic Drift of The Strategist
LinkedIn Sent
“So I grabbed 100 titles from 2nd-degree connections on LinkedIn that had strategy somewhere in the visible profile and ran some analysis.”
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
The Harvard Business Review Sent
“On their own initiative workers did more because AI made “doing more” feel possible, accessible, and in many cases intrinsically rewarding.”
Sloperators
Adam Delehanty Sent
“If you give steroids to a Little League baseball player, they’re still a ten-year-old boy. Give them to Barry Bonds and he breaks every record in the books.”
Selling Strategy Without the Sleaze
Rob Salmon Sent
“You are remembered for the help you provide, not the noise you make.”
How to Drop Killer Workshops
Rob Salmon Sent
“Market the workshop activities like you are teaching children.”
The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Andy Pressman
Soft Labor Sent
“It’s in your interest to be a sicko, making work for other sickos.”
How to Drop Killer Workshops
Rob Salmon Sent
“Market the workshop activities like you are teaching children.”
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How an Iced Coffee in a Job Interview Sparked a Raging Etiquette Debate
archive.ph Sent
Coffee is a little more formal than iced coffee,” she said. “Coffee is dressed up in a jacket, right? Iced coffee’s like a bathing suit.
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The Realities of AI Deck Creation
Rob Salmon Sent
Compiled (by AI, lol) from strategist conversations in the Salmon Labs WhatsApp group
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This Conversation Is Being Recorded. They All Are.
The Wall Street Journal Filed
“People in tech use AI apps to record and transcribe meetings, workplace chats and even dates—all in the name of productivity.”
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Why Are We Playing Video Games About Work?
The New York Times Sent
To some extent, it expresses this desire for things to be more straightforward, like ‘If I do X, I’ll get Y.
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Do “Admin Nights” make people more productive or less lonely?
The New Yorker Sent
I wanted to shine my light on what’s happening—that life has become unsustainable.
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We Ran the Numbers. Remote Work Is Bad for Us.
The New York Times Sent
Twenty-six years after Robert Putnam warned that Americans were bowling alone, many of us are now typing alone.
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i don't trust people who schedule calls at 8am
TikTok Sent
8am meetings are basically home invasions with a calendar invite.
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The Strategy & Planning Scrapbook
STRAT_SCRAPS Sent
A curated collection of strategy frameworks, creative provocations, and planning tools — compiled from years of practice in brand strategy and advertising.
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Management consultants are the looksmaxxers of the business world
TikTok Sent
Remember: they're not smarter than you, they're just convinced they are.
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Mondays at the office
trust. Sent
Mondays at the office
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The many joys of small talk
The Financial Times Sent
A large amount of work consists of person A trying to get person B to do something even though both report to person C. Much is gained if A can keep up with B’s latest half-marathon times, and whether they prefer to holiday in Cornwall or Devon.
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Anxious Parents Are Spending More Than $50,000 to Land Their Kid a Job
Bloomberg Sent
Her six-month programs run from $4,000 to $15,000.
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Work Day: My Life Videos
The New York Times Sent
“A kind of Midwestern sublime, an already forgotten sense of late-aughts "normal.”
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Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don't Bet on It Now.
The Wall Street Journal Sent
“Neither theory, history or the latest data suggests a recession driven by AI job dislocation is likely”
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Artist Corporations
Artist Corporations Sent
“A new type of company designed for creative people. Artists keep majority control, intellectual property is protected by law, and the artistic mission comes first.”
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Young People Are Switching Careers to Avoid Being Replaced by AI
The Wall Street Journal Sent
“From electricians to firefighters to açai bowl entrepreneurs, young Americans are pivoting careers based on one fear: AI taking their jobs”