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Work Futures Daily | Breadcrumbing

Stowe Boyd
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6 min readOct 7, 2019

|Two weeks in the West | Breadcrumbing at Work | Better Diversity at the Fed | Rudiger Dornbusch | Uber Ambitious | Subpriming Cars |

Beacon NY | 2019–10–07 | Back from two weeks in San Francisco, at the Dropbox Work In Progress event and Boxworks 19. You can soak up the experience in these posts:

I live-tweeted the Dropbox Work In Progress keynote.

Dropbox Launches ‘Smart Workspaces’ | Drew Houston repositions the company and wants to ‘quiet the noise’

Dropbox Spaces: Evolving from File Platform to Work Platform | Working in Place, not in Passing

Dropbox Spaces and Dropbox Paper: Not Totally Integrated, Yet | Things That Are in the Works and Things That Should Be

I attended Boxworks 19 and live-tweeted the keynote. I also curated a bunch of others’ tweets.

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I love the term ‘breadcrumbing’, which I had never heard before.

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What to do if your boss is “breadcrumbing” you at work | Gwen Moran offers some insight to a negative trend, where companies fail to offer professional growth for employees:

While “breadcrumbing” — being strung along by small reinforcements without true commitment — has been around in the dating…

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Stowe Boyd
Stowe Boyd

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Insatiably curious. Economics, work, psychology, sociology, ecology, tools for thought. See also workfutures.io. @stoweboyd.bsky.social.

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