ベスト オブ 2023
転職した 日本に住んでいたころから長らく働いた Amazon をやめた。レイオフとか、自宅勤務終了とかの色々が嫌だったのもあるけれど、リテール、アレクサ、AWS とチームを点々としながら10年以上働いたので、そろそろ一区切りかなと思ったのも大きい。 音楽 Covet がシアトルに来ているというので観にいった。かっこよかったし、一人で小さいライブハウスにいって、バンドをみるのは久しぶりでよかった。 本 The Search - Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World 様々な人々へのインタビューから、仕事について考える、という本。転職した後に図書館で借りて読んだ。 ポッドキャスト Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism And now if you’re a Googler, it’s like “I’ll work for this company until they lay off 12,000 of me and my colleagues, within months of having done a stock buyback that would have paid all of our wages for the next 27 years.” And the reason they can do that to the people that they used to court with such ardor, because they thought that their future lay in talent markets, is because they’re the phone company, and they don’t have to care. Right? The way that you get to make a dent in the universe again, the way that you get to dream big about doing stuff that matters is by having some controlled fire in these big, overgrown, fire-indebted, old forests that we stopped allowing to burn down periodically. And when that good fire opens up some space in the canopy, when we let them fail, rather than propping them up over and over again, with more and more regulatory capture, with more and more acquisition of the bonafide threats, then you personally, the tech worker who knows how to do stuff, you get to escape the inexorable proletarianization that you’re living through now, where all you can hope for is to work until you’re fired, and to enter back into that amazing dream that we once all had, of really changing the world and doing things that make ourselves memorialized in the annals of tech forever. こういう Cory Doctrow の煽りをきくと、いわゆるビッグテックに戻るのはもう無いのかなあとも思う。 この記事は 2023 アドベントカレンダー 2023 の2日目です。1日目は taizoo さん、3日目は necomimi さんです。