Lmst

Email didn’t disappear. It was repositioned.

For many, it’s just receipts and notifications. For others, it remains a disciplined space for serious communication.

I’ve written about why I think email is still a craft — even if we pretend it isn’t.

https://paulobrien.com/email-is-still-a-craft-even-if-we-pretend-it-isnt/

Busy is common. Finished is rare. In 2026, productivity belongs to those who complete.
#Productivity #DeepWork #FinishWhatYouStart #QuietPower #BusinessMindset #Execution #Focus #DigitalWork #EntrepreneurLife #SustainableGrowth #Clarity #Builders

https://thedigitalcove.blog/2026/01/22/doing-less-finishing-more-the-new-productivity-advantage-in-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

HQPotner is an all-in-one digital management platform for businesses, teams, and freelancers.

I published a detailed guide covering:
• Features & benefits
• Supported platforms
• How it improves efficiency

#BusinessTools #DigitalWork

💻 Foxit Cloud – Chỉnh sửa PDF mọi nơi, mọi lúc

Muốn làm việc nhóm trên PDF mà không rối rắm? Foxit Cloud cho phép:

- Chỉnh sửa & tạo PDF trực tuyến
- Ký điện tử hợp pháp
- Chia sẻ & comment thời gian thực

🔥 Tạo tài khoản chỉ 3 bước đơn giản: truy cập → điền thông tin → đăng nhập.

Chi tiết tại: 👉 https://nhanhoa.com/tin-tuc/foxit-cloud-la-gi.html

#FoxitCloud #PDFOnline #DigitalWork

[HỎI ĐÁP] Làm thế nào để cải thiện quy trình QA khi đội ngũ hỗ trợ khách hàng tăng nhanh từ 5→18 người và Google Sheets không còn đủ dùng? Thay vì dòm ngó các hệ thống CRM cồng kềnh, họ đang tìm công cụ nhẹ giúp đo lường chất lượng, theo dõi mẫu xử lý ticket… Các bạn đã từng gặp tình huống này và giải quyết như nào? #QuảnTrịSaaS #HỗTrợKháchHàng #CôngNghệQA #DigitalWork #ContentVietnam

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1phq62t/anyone_else_stuck_in_that_weird_spot_where_your/

AI is becoming one of the most powerful income tools in the world.

I wrote a practical, step-by-step guide on how individuals can start making money using AI in 2026 — including side hustles, tools, and real-world applications.

Read it here → https://techputs.com/make-money-using-ai-in-2026/

#AI #SideHustle #FOSS #TechCommunity #Automation #DigitalWork #tech #technology #technews

🚀 How is Generative AI reshaping knowledge work?
A new #WJDS paper explores its impact in IT programming, science, and coaching. Interviews + survey show AI augments human expertise but also raises risks like “good-enough” automation & hollowed-out professions.

#OpenAccess via Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
#GenerativeAI #STS #SociologyOfWork #DigitalWork #AIResearch #research #Knowledge #FutureOfWork #TechPolicy #socialsciences #sociology

Butollo, Florian, Jennifer Haase, Ann-Kathrin Katzinski, and Anne K. Krüger. 2025. “Generative AI and Changes to Knowledge Work”. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society 5 (4)

📄 New WJDS paper: “The Ideal Worker Revisited: A Gender Perspective on Technostress at the Office.”

Authors Myriam Gaitsch and Philip Schörpf show how digitalization creates technostress—through overload, invasion, and uncertainty—often leaving employees to cope on their own. Women, especially mothers, are most affected, as flexible work blurs boundaries and reinforces inequalities.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/5.3.5

#Research #SocialScience #sociology #DigitalWork #FutureOfWork #GenderStudies

Paper: Gaitsch, M., & Schörpf , P. (2025). The Ideal Worker Revisited: A Gender Perspective on Technostress at the Office. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 5(3). https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/5.3.5

First month with AI at work: pure magic.
The second month: “who actually checked this?”

My new piece unpacks how to keep accountability alive when tools start writing faster than we can think.

#AI #governance #digitalwork #Work #ethics #business

https://pub.aimind.so/so-your-company-just-started-using-ai-buckle-up-ab958862f918

#Tennis #Ball #Zoom by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/tennis-ball-zoom-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#balls #yellowballs #field #abstract #digitalwork #lines #rows #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

⏰🤖📅📊🔔✉️📈
AI personal assistants are optimizing our day—smart scheduling, task handling, reminders, and more.
Work smarter, not harder.
🔗 https://www.nexthorizon.space/2025/04/blog-post_222.html

#AI #Productivity #TimeManagement #SmartTech #Automation #DigitalWork #Efficiency #FutureOfWork #Innovation

Who keeps AI running? In Mexico, Carolina, Ricardo, and Laura perform the hidden labor that sustains our digital world. Their stories reveal how remote work promises flexibility - and delivers isolation and exhaustion.

Nahima Dávalos-Vázquez accompanied three remote workers in the #AI world and asks: Who has the right to be a body in this new era of work? ⬇

https://trafo.hypotheses.org/60094

#Trafo #hypolingual #sociology #GlobalSouth #Technology #DigitalWork

Influencer-Dilemma: Je mehr Reichweite, desto weniger Freiheit. Studie der EBS Universität zeigt psychische Belastung & Paradoxien im Creator-Alltag.
👉 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115459
#Influencer #CreatorEconomy #DigitalWork #EBSResearch
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/06/24/das-influencer-dilemma-neue-ebs-studie-zeigt-influencer-innen-leiden-unter-dem-erfolgsdruck-ihrer-community

WHEN THE PLATFORM IS THE CLIENT — AND THE THIEF
May 18, 2025

What if a lawyer no longer met their client, but handed their case files to YouTube? What if someone broke into your home, took your creative work, promised fair compensation — and just never delivered? This isn’t fiction. This is the daily reality for millions of content creators. We don’t own the platform. We don’t own the audience. And we don’t own the terms. When you can’t negotiate your price, protect your reach, or even prove your value — what’s left to own, except your burnout? I wrote this as a warning. And a reckoning.
¯

_
YOU BRING THE CASE, THEY TAKE THE CASH — AND LEAVE YOU WITH THE BURNOUT

Take a lawyer. A lawyer earns money because their time has value. They meet their clients, set their fees, and are paid for every hour worked. That’s why they have offices, good equipment, tailored clothes — because their profession pays. Now imagine that law worked like YouTube. The lawyer doesn’t meet the client anymore. The lawyer meets YouTube. YouTube meets the client. YouTube takes the money. And the lawyer gets nothing — or maybe a few coins. In this version of the world, the lawyer wouldn’t have a proper office, or nice clothes, or financial stability. They’d look exactly like many full-time creators today: overqualified, underpaid, exhausted, and invisible. If video production followed the same structure as law — say €120/hour — YouTube would have to make content genuinely profitable before acquiring it. Creators would be professionals with autonomy and fair rates. But instead, creators hand over both their work and their clients to a machine that doesn’t pay — and calls it a platform.

Now imagine this: it’s the middle of the night. You’re asleep. A thief breaks into your house. He doesn’t take your jewelry or your wallet — he takes your tapes. Your creative work. He doesn’t steal it out of passion. He takes it to become the only one allowed to exploit it commercially — without ever paying you. The next day, he comes back. You hand him the key. You give him the code to the safe. He smiles and says: “If your videos are worth anything, you’ll be compensated fairly. We have a monetization system.” Meanwhile, he generates millions. He shows your videos selectively. He suppresses your reach. And he convinces you that no one cares — so that he doesn’t have to share anything. It’s not just your content that was taken. It’s your ability to prove its worth. This isn’t a partner. It’s a slot machine. Everything is designed to maximize its revenue. Nothing is designed to sustain the people who make it run.
¯

_
YOUTUBE DOESN’T EARN ITS CUT

The cut YouTube takes isn’t justified by any kind of visibility. People say, “They take 30%, but at least they bring you an audience.” No — they don’t bring anyone. They host my videos, and I have to do all the work to attract viewers myself. Only after I’ve already generated traffic do they start treating me as worth promoting — not to help, but to feed more users into a system that’s already profitable for them. If I don’t build the mill myself, they won’t bring the water. They won’t even help me build it. They only show up when the harvest is good — and only to pick the fruit. Meanwhile, they discard what they consider to be “bad crops,” even when the fruit is perfectly fine. This isn’t failure. It’s industrial-scale waste — of labor, energy, and money that doesn’t belong to them.
¯

_
||#HSLdiary #HSLmichael

#ContentCreator #DigitalWork #Exploitation #YouTube #Monetization #PlatformAbuse

THE HIDDEN COSTS OF RUNNING A MICROBUSINESS ON WELFARE
May 18, 2025

Creating content online is not free. In 2024, I spent over €4,300 just to stay visible — while living on welfare and earning nothing. Domains, hosting, tools... Every cent went into surviving the algorithm. And even in 2025, after cutting everything, I’m still paying over €2,600 a year — with no revenue. This isn’t growth. This is the price of existing as an independent creator.
¯

_
WHY €0 REVENUE STILL COMES WITH A €4,300 BILL

People say creating content online is free. All you need is a computer, a phone, and a spark of inspiration. In reality, when you’re running a microbusiness with zero revenue while living on welfare, every tool, every hosting plan, every service becomes a loss-making investment — but one that’s necessary just to exist in the digital ecosystem. This isn’t about comfort or startup luxuries. It’s about the bare minimum required to appear professional: a website, a storefront, basic tools to publish content, and a presence convincing enough to answer the inevitable question from a potential sponsor: “Where can we find you?”
¯

_
THE RECURRING BASELINE

Here’s a realistic breakdown of my annual fixed costs:
– 7 domain names: €400/year
– WordPress hosting: €100/year
– Online store: €600/year
– Booking system: €250/year
¯

_
“SECONDARY” SERVICES (THAT ARE ANYTHING BUT)

What people often call “extras” are, in truth, just as essential for building a professional brand, creating content, and distributing it effectively:
– Brave VPN: €10/month
– Shutterstock (stock images): €50/year
– RadioBoss Cloud (self-hosted radio): €6/month (lifetime discounted rate)
– Internet: €35/month (€400/year — nearly a full month of welfare)
– ChatGPT (paid plan): €25/month
– Colorcinch (thumbnail design effects): €8/month
That doesn’t even include electricity (~€300/month) or rent — because they’re considered “vital” and don’t appear in business accounting, even if they’re non-negotiable.
¯

_
WHAT WE HAD TO CUT

Even with an already minimal setup, survival meant sacrificing tools:
– YouTube Premium: €25/month
– Weebly: €20/month (replaced with WordPress)
– Mobile app project: scrapped (licenses + updates + devs = unsustainable)
– Two domains dropped: hsl.show and housestation.live (saving €70/year)
– Fathom Analytics: €20/month → lost all stats from 2022 to 2024
– Captivate podcast hosting: €20/month
¯

_
WHAT WE REPLACED

YouTube was replaced by Infomaniak VOD, a Swiss-based platform costing €20/month. It wasn’t some anti-corporate stance. It was survival logic. We paid YouTube to boost our content — and then got buried by the algorithm just after. If paying doesn’t buy long-term visibility, what’s the point?
¯

_
FINAL THOUGHT

Even with no revenue and a completely stripped-down toolset, my business expenses still exceed €2,600 a year. Before cuts, that figure was over €4,300. And I’m living on welfare. This isn’t growth. This isn’t scaling. This is the cost of simply staying visible.
¯

_
||#HSLdiary #HSLmichael

#IndieCreator #Welfare #PlatformBias #YouTube #DigitalWork

#DigitalWork, #Education, #AI, #Skillsharing, #Mobility, #Bioengineering (e.g. resistant seeds, meat alternatives), #Quantumcomputing, #Encryption, #ProgrammingLanguages.

Technology has significantly transformed our society, will it continue so?
How could and should technology shape our future?

Workers who were required to watch deeply disturbing videos on TikTok say they were fired after trying to unionise.

The workers were employed as Telus Digital, a Canadian company that provides outsourcing services for TikTok as well as others such as Facebook parent company Meta.

They say that being forced to watch graphic videos damaged their mental health and that they are being punished for attempting to improve their conditions, according to an investigation by The Independent and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
#unions #workers #digitalwork
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-videos-moderation-content-telus-b2715766.html