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Cameo is a fascinating company. Chicago mag also published a longread on the company earlier this year if anyone is going down a rabbit hole: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2020/Came...

It's also worth noting how many people get most of their local news (for better or worse) from Facebook these days, like social accounts of the decimated small town papers and some superficial TV news stations, and community groups. If you live in a tech-savvy larger market, it's easy to take for granted how smaller communities use the platform.

Ever since learned that owls are mostly made up of feathers, I haven't been the same.

Especially eye opening given the wave of recent media layoffs due to a lack of ad revenue.

In my experience in the field, media companies are typically super slow to upgrade tech, so I'd guess at least half of these laptops are refurbished, at least three years old and only half functional from constant overuse (if you work in digital media, you know the job is way more than 40 hours a week).

This week has been brutal one for media layoffs. Also: Conde Nast, Quartz and BuzzFeed.

And for the bulk of these laid off folks, this will likely mean their time in journalism is done. The odds of there being many opportunities in the industry after the pandemic seem pretty low right now..

100%. As a manager when we were still in a physical office, I encouraged small group lunches, coffee outings, walks to a nearby dog park, etc. Way too much company socializing still centers on alcohol.

I actually had to push back on our in-office boozy happy hours because a few team members were getting too drunk and it was making other people uncomfortable. My boss didn't think it'd seem "cool" if we put together a policy for how these happy hours should be handled. I don't work there anymore. :)

If you need to rely on this sort of technology to feel confident your team is being productive and meeting their goals, you're not doing a very good job managing your team and/or you're simply not a great manager. Full stop.

I'm in a suburban/semi-rural setting and have found Uber Eats to be more reliable than Grubhub in most cases. It seems like UE might open up GH to more of these markets where restaurants have been slower to warm up to working with a service like GH than restaurants in an urban center.

I've worked with one of these people. Never attended a single off-site work event, even when it took place during work hours. And then he was shocked when he went for a promotion and it didn't happen. It was a topic of discussion among the management team and a big con on his pro/con list. Since it was a small company (25 people), it was decidedly weird he refused to take part in culture.

That said, culture shouldn't be forced. I think employees should be given multiple ways to participate to find a way that is most comfortable to them.

Not in LA county but another urban center and I'm personally beginning to mentally prepare for a virtual holiday season and just hoping I'm wrong. :/

I wonder what this trend -- if it takes -- will mean for all these giant office buildings in downtown areas. How many companies simply won't be returning?

I've also seen the takes re: social distancing requiring larger office space, but why wouldn't companies just send their employees in in smaller, rotating groups?

Love Bookshop. the UX is great, shipping is fast, and indie bookstores are benefiting. much better than Amazon all around.