Feature interview: how Meta and X will eat themselves
This is how huge tech platforms like Google and Meta roll; first, they're good to their users; then they abuse them to make things better for business customers, then they exploit their business customers to squeeze out every last bit of value for themselves. Then, they die. That's how author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow sees tech's slow-motion collapse. He's in New Zealand to meet readers and talk about his latest book about Silicon Valley's big bet on AI called Picks and Shovels.
"Well it turns out working more doesn't always increase productivity. For the past 12 months, Cambridge company Te Miro water have been trialing a 9 day fortnight. That's 3 days off every other weekend."
#JesseMulligan, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018934308/how-a-nine-day-fortnight-suits-a-waikato-company
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How a nine day fortnight suits a Waikato company
Even if you love your job there are still some Mondays when you really don't want to drag yourself into work. For the last 12 months Cambridge company Te Miro water have been trialing a nine day fortnight. Britta Jensen speaks to Jesse.
If I heard correctly, Professor Kurt Krause of Otago University just told RNZ's Jesse Mulligan that tuberculosis killed more people than COVID last year:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons
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