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The Ambient Office

Posted on March 31st, 2008 by mitten

One of the tricks they used to tout for helping tiny babies go to sleep was to play a special cd with quiet, muffled whooshing noises. It was meant to simulate the noises a baby would hear while in the womb (her mother’s blood rushing past, presumably) and thus calm and console her enough to [...]

Bosses are not natural

Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by mitten

Paul Graham has posted an essay on the idea that human beings were not meant to have bosses. He argues that we, as a species, are simply not meant to be organized into very large groups. It goes against our evolution.
Watching employees get transformed into founders makes it clear that the difference between the two [...]

Welcome to The Not An Employee Blog

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by mitten

We planned to add a blog to the static site from the very beginning, although we had it in our “someday” to-do lists. But we have had such a wonderful response to the site launch on Friday, I’ve hustled together a theme so we could launch the blog right away. Thank you to everyone who [...]