Fired? Why cooperatives might be your next career choice in tech

Post by 314 » Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 10:27 AM UTC

samtho wrote: post #23

mypastself wrote: post #13

It’s high time I stopped reading Medium articles shared here. I got the distinct feeling I was being sold something while reading it, and the last paragraph confirmed it. It’s filled with vague, corporatey platitudes about ego and altruism, and there’s almost nothing in it about how this concept applies specifically to tech . The supposed “cons” sound like the ad equivalents of leading questions: > The relationships…

> I got the distinct feeling I was being sold something while reading it, and the last paragraph confirmed it. I have this feeling medium is being kept alive on the shoulders of other companies’ marketing teams in an attempt to write thinly-veiled sales pitches disguised as blog posts from a “neutral” 3rd party. Coupled with the zero-life-experience blogger trope, the signal to noise ratio on medium is practically ni…

Post by Shoue » Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 10:30 AM UTC

bluesign wrote: post #30

dogma1138 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a common mistake, actual functioning cooperatives operate like any other enterprise with an set executive structure a CEO and a board of directors. The big difference is the ownership model so shareholder meetings are basically employee meetings so a successful cooperative simply runs like any other business just one where the employees are treated as the shareholders they are when it comes to decision making…

So it is little worse than unions done good.

Post by TylerE » Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 10:32 AM UTC

samtho wrote: post #23

mypastself wrote: post #13

It’s high time I stopped reading Medium articles shared here. I got the distinct feeling I was being sold something while reading it, and the last paragraph confirmed it. It’s filled with vague, corporatey platitudes about ego and altruism, and there’s almost nothing in it about how this concept applies specifically to tech . The supposed “cons” sound like the ad equivalents of leading questions: > The relationships…

> I got the distinct feeling I was being sold something while reading it, and the last paragraph confirmed it. I have this feeling medium is being kept alive on the shoulders of other companies’ marketing teams in an attempt to write thinly-veiled sales pitches disguised as blog posts from a “neutral” 3rd party. Coupled with the zero-life-experience blogger trope, the signal to noise ratio on medium is practically ni…

Post by ankaAr » Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 10:36 AM UTC

tacoopcurious wrote: post #2

I'm happily employed but I still want to keep an eye out for interesting developments in the tech coop space for AI. The field being what it is these days, N people sharing knowledge, code, and (as permitted) data could handle N similar applied AI projects much more easily than 1 person could handle 1. Are there successful examples of this model anywhere?

Post by yoz-y » Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 10:42 AM UTC

TylerE wrote: post #45

samtho wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I got the distinct feeling I was being sold something while reading it, and the last paragraph confirmed it. I have this feeling medium is being kept alive on the shoulders of other companies’ marketing teams in an attempt to write thinly-veiled sales pitches disguised as blog posts from a “neutral” 3rd party. Coupled with the zero-life-experience blogger trope, the signal to noise ratio on medium is practically ni…

The signal I’ve started looking for is an above the fold “minutes to read” stat. Sites, like Medium, that have it are practically all worth ignoring because it’s either astroturfing or just navel gazing.