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Atuin supercharges your productivity by enabling you to rapidly retrieve any command you’ve ran, at any time, from anywhere. It stores your shell history in a database, recording additional command context and syncing it (e2e encrypted) across devices. The 22nd of December was my last day leading the infrastructure team at PostHog. Going forwards, I’m …

The 30-hour workweek: Often celebrated by employees, feared by business representatives. Discussions about a shorter workweek have been ongoing for a long time and don’t seem to be ending. What future scenarios can arise from changes in working hours, and is it realistic that we will all only work three hours a day in the …

Replace your smartphone with a smartwatch Imagine a week without your smartphone, replaced solely by the sleek simplicity of a smartwatch. This week I did this, leaving my smartphone behind and letting an Apple Watch take the helm. Many hail this as a liberating escape from our attention-seeking digital sidekicks, but does it truly live …

A little more than a week ago, I wrote a review of an art show by the artist and TikTok sensation Devon Rodriguez, best known for live drawing subway riders. He is, by some measures, the most famous artist in the world, with many millions of social media followers. He did not like the review. …

Receive free FT Magazine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest FT Magazine news every morning. Elon Musk calls working from home morally wrong. Google has begun including office attendance in its employees’ performance reviews. Amazon’s chief executive, Andy Jassy, who previously seemed relaxed about remote work, told staff …

How To Work Better, Tate style | Alex Graveley ← Alex Graveley ← Archive Today I was sneaking around behind the scenes at the Tate Modern London. I saw the following etched on a wall for the employees beginning their day. How To Work Better Do one thing at a time Know the problem Learn …

If you’re curious to know what it was like to work at BuzzFeed News in the salad days of the mid-2010s, here is a representative anecdote: I was sitting at my desk one morning, dreadfully hungover and editing a story titled “The Definitive Oral History of the Wikipedia Photo for ‘Grinding,’” when the sounds of …

Here’s one theory: Psychic ability was researched heavily in the 1960s. It’s possible that some people who were heavily involved in psychic research then and after hold great power in key places, and would prefer government policy not further normalize the discrediting of their former work..? If psychic power really was real and useful, I’d …

Twitter managers have told some staff work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, CNBC reported. Some managers told The New York Times they slept at Twitter’s office on Friday and Saturday nights. Staff are trying to prove themselves amid the looming threat of layoffs under new owner Elon Musk. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for …

Before the sun came up Wednesday in Chicago, cheers filled a multipurpose room at Curie Metropolitan High School as news broke:   Curie had been named one of the “World’s Best Schools.”  The Southwest Side high school is among five schools — and the only school in North America — awarded a $50,000 World’s Best School …