Work, Craft & Culture Essayist
Jason Lee
Jason Lee writes essays, usually late, about work, judgement and how smart people talk themselves into bad decisions.
- Beat
- Work culture, decision-making, tools, the economics of the creator economy
- From
- US Northeast
- On the list
- 45 items
The checklist, items 01 to 45
Contents
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Item 01
Notion sells you a canvas, and the canvas becomes the work
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Item 02
The graph view is wallpaper
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Item 03
Linear makes the queue faster, and the queue was never the problem
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Item 04
The ticket system is the org chart, printed on purpose
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Item 05
The unicorn celebrates the wrong task
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Item 06
The jingle is the thesis
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Item 07
Slack sells presence, and presence is not the same as progress
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Item 08
Microsoft Teams is not a product you buy. It is a condition of licenses you already bought
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Item 09
The calendar is the last inbox, and Notion bought the good one
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Item 10
Motion rents you a judgment you were supposed to develop
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Item 11
Superhuman sells fluency, and the sommelier never stops talking
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Item 12
Hey is a door, and doors do not scale
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Item 13
Raycast arranges a computer the way a kitchen is arranged
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Item 14
The most interesting browser of its decade is a beanbag with a maintenance schedule
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Item 15
Perplexity answers in the voice of a reference desk that does not work there
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Item 16
ChatGPT Plus is a meter bolted to a machine nobody can read
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Item 17
Claude writes the way we all pretended to in meetings
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Item 18
Grammarly sells a floor, and charges you for the ceiling you already owned
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Item 19
The app that charges admission to the page you were avoiding
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Item 20
Roam sold the promise that a link is a thought, and charged rent on the promise
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Item 21
Paying rent on my own highlights
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Item 22
The queue was the product working as designed
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Item 23
The rake and the network
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Item 24
Rent, not rake
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Item 25
The receipt names a company you've never met
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Item 26
The credit union of publishing platforms
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Item 27
Built to win the meeting
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Item 28
The whole job fits on one page
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Item 29
The queue kept posting after the person left
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Item 30
The slide was a correlation wearing a lab coat
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Item 31
The best feature was the timer
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Item 32
The cost moved to the other side of the screen
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Item 33
She deleted the sentence and the audio obeyed
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Item 34
The summary is the version that exists
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Item 35
The chairs outlived the company
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Item 36
Sold on the wrong argument, good for a different one
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Item 37
The keyboard that refuses to be everything
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Item 38
The computer stopped being the product
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Item 39
The phone is excellent, and the phone is no longer the point
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Item 40
The reader that declines to own you
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Item 41
Todoist sells a subscription to the person you intend to be
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Item 42
Things 3 is a finished object in a business of services
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Item 43
Trello survived as the wedding planner, and the wedding planner never pays
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Item 44
Miro rents the wall, and the wall remembers who stopped paying
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Item 45
Evernote sold the end of deciding, and the deciding came due
