Morfternight #61: Boycotting the World Cup
Hello! I am Paolo Belcastro. You are reading this because you subscribed to Morfternight, the weekly newsletter about leadership, product management, distributed teams, and anything that tickles our brains. 🤩 Welcome to the 5 new Morfternighters who joined us last week. 📷 Photo of the week
Wait - More Photos👋 Greetings from Vienna!Where autumn is in full blast, Christmas markets everywhere are again open and fill the atmosphere with the characteristic smell of wine, spice, toasted nuts, and random stuff fried in overused oil. It is spring for the other half of the planet, but while seasons are reversed, holidays are not. I hope the traditional food and drinks are different in the southern hemisphere, as I’d have a hard time imagining what we have here in hot weather… On a completely different note, I am gearing up to spend the week helping Jetpack customers and talking to them. Why? Because that’s something we all do at Automattic, once per year, we call it our Happiness Rotation (as in customer’s happiness). I mentioned it in Morfternight #50: Customers, customers, customers! It is critical to keep talking to customers as often as possible when building products; next week is part of that philosophy. So, who knows, if you are a Jetpack customer, and have a technical problem, next week we may end up talking about it :) If we don’t meet in Jetpack support, we can meet on Mastodon; as I mentioned last week, we now have a Morfternight server at: meet.morfternight.com, where all subscribers of this newsletter are welcome! 🗺️ Three places to visit today
🛑 Can we stop cruelty towards employees?While Twitter, since Elon Musk’s takeover, has been mistreating employees, these are not the employees I am referring to. Frankly, I am not worried if Twitter breaks down and disappears; I am more concerned about what it’ll become if it survives without serious moderation. As for the staff that was laid off, I am sincerely sorry for them. On the spectrum of injustice, though, there is so much worse than that. The employees I am referring to, though, are the ones treated like slaves in the construction of useless stadiums to host the football World Cup. In case you have missed what’s been happening in Qatar during the past ten years to host the event, here’s John Oliver’s take on it.  It feels almost impossible to do anything about it at the individual level, but the very least I found I can do is to boycott it by not watching it on TV for the first time since 1974. I am not superstitious, but coincidentally it was the 13th one of my lifetime… Thanks for reading Morfternight! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. That's it for today!I write, and publish photos on paolo.blog If you know someone who could enjoy Morfternight, share it with them! 🤩 Cheers!
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