💜 Becca Bailey

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Reading path

The Language of Work

Essays from the careers-page research — what two decades of how tech companies describe themselves as employers reveals about idealism, care, and who actually holds leverage.

Essays in this path

  1. 1.

    Millennials Were Supposed to Fix Work

    A 2014 prediction, twelve years of careers-page data, and what worker leverage actually bought us

  2. 2.

    A Team, Not a Family

    And how a 2009 Netflix deck taught everyone to say "talent density"

  3. 3.

    Deeply Resentful

    What Google's employee number four tells us about parental leave

  4. 4.

    Dark Places

    David Heinemeier Hansson, 37signals, and the myth of the non-political workplace

Further reading

  • The Human Condition — Hannah Arendt (1958) · Book
  • Work Won't Love You Back — Sarah Jaffe (2021) · Book
  • Out of Office — Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen (2021) · Book
  • Bullshit Jobs — David Graeber (2018) · Book