Good To Know: November 2022 🧑‍💻

A monthly round-up of things happening in hiring, D&I, and humanity.

Good To Know: November 2022 🧑‍💻

A monthly round-up of things happening in hiring, D&I, and humanity.

Hey Everyone, 

Welcome to Good to Know! If you are new here, I publish Good to Know on the last Tuesday of every month.

Unlike most posts, Good to Know is a round-up of things going on in hiring, D&I, and humanity with some of my comments. Its purpose is to showcase some of the great work others do and learn from them.

Thankful,

Ben

🤓This week we have🤓

• ✍️What I wrote this month✍️

• Minnesota is the labor market bell weather (or The labor market is doing OK👷- Part 1,000,000)

• 🐥Working at Elon’s Twitter is a bad bet🐥

• 🏆What high-performing teams do differently🏆

• 🐤Solid Tweets🐤

• 💥Quick hits💥

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✍️What I wrote this month✍️

• 🪞Beware Cokeheads Creating Culture🪞 - William Halsted was a brilliant surgeon. He also loved cocaine and medical residents are paying the price.

• 🎭What's So Great About Empathy?🎭 - It’s all companies want to talk about, why?

• It's So Easy - Evaluating Empathy💅 - Judging whether or not someone is empathetic isn’t as hard as you think.

• The World Cup's Empathy Chain ⚽️ - FIFA doesn’t understand that the whole is made up of the sum of its parts.

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Minnesota is the labor market bell weather - (Labor Market is [still] doing OK👷- Part 1,000,000)

The unemployment rate in Minnesota is 2.1%, the lowest in the nation. From the Economist ($):

Nationally, there are nearly two job vacancies for every unemployed person, just shy of a record high hit a few months earlier. In Minnesota, the ratio is an eye-popping 3.5 vacancies per unemployed person

The piece goes on to list the reasons. None of which are surprising:

1. Older workers left the labor force due to the hassle and risks of COVID-19.

2. The cancellation of school and childcare caused many parents (read: women) to drop out of the labor market.

3. Increased savings rates made workers picky.

4. Negative population growth due to an exodus of residents and decreased immigration.

How is Minnesota solving the problem?

1. Introducing publicly paid leave.

2. Funding more affordable housing for younger workers.

3. Increasing immigration and automation where possible and politically feasible.

4. Hoping for a recession.

As one interviewee said, “It’s a math problem.”

And it’s not going away anytime soon.

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🐥Working at Elon’s Twitter is a bad bet🐥

This tweet thread rationally summarizes why staying at Twitter is a bad bet.

Peter Clowes @peterclowes

Why I left @Twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0 🧵

I guess only “extremely hardcore” workers make bad career bets?

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🏆What high-performing teams do differently🏆

@thezarinakhanwhat did this article miss? alternately, have you been on a high performing team that demonstrated these things?! 5 blew my mind but makes sense when you think about it!#greenscreen #algorithm #careertok #careeradvicedaily #careeradviceontiktok #womeninbiztok #biztok #careeradvice #careertiktok #careercoachtok #womeninbusiness #womeninstem #womeninproduct #womenintech

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Here’s the HBR piece if you’re so inclined.

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🐤Solid Tweets🐤

unusual_whales @unusual_whales

By 2027, 86.5 million people will be freelancing in the United States, per MarketWatch, with freelancers making up 50.9% of the total U.S. workforce.

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

Incredible how the entire "quiet quitting" narrative began and ended with essentially no real evidence beyond some random managers' fears and a self referential media cycle. Entirely vibes based crisis.

Ean Ryan @ean__ryan

@adam_tooze @BSteverman @atanzi When compared to previous generations at similar ages, millennial wealth doesn't even come close.

minimum paige @fluxistrad

Lol

Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth

Meta employees to be offered real estate in the Metaverse as part of severance package.

Quick hits💥

• Professionals are warming to unions

• Microsoft releases internal harassment data

• Make $400K sleeping on TikTok ($)

• Thanks for the healthy perspective, Frank

And Finally📈…

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