Innovation Everywhere
Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by bkerr
Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by Barbara
One of the themes of Not An Employee is collaboration. Here we’ve created a little website and a small business run by people who have never once sat down and said “Ok, we’re going to start a business and have a website and Laura will design it and Barbara will handle the paperwork and Brian [...]
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 [...]
Posted on March 20th, 2008 by vaguery
A gentleman of my passing acquaintance, who is a prominent local businessman, mentioned today that he was “happy to see another talent collective” in our town.
I went to substantial lengths to correct him. Which leads me to jot a few notes, and to share them with you.
Sure, yes, there’s Not An Employee, LLC, a company [...]
Posted on March 10th, 2008 by vaguery
As a point of clarification, since we’ve received a number of comments and emails about the site design. Mitten did all the visual work, the typography, the design, and established the overarching aesthetic impact of the Not An Employee site herself.
But the items you see in the margins? The phrenology bust, the Gammatron transmitting tube, [...]
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by vaguery
We are not against bosses. Not against work. Not against capitalism or communitarianism, collectives or individuals. Not against corporations or government, taxes or barter.
The real enemies are our own assumptions about what is necessary, possible, and forbidden.
Collegiality is preferable to formal partnership. Partnership is preferable to work for hire. Work for hire is preferable to [...]
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