ending
To know the place for the first time
She was wanting to break it off
Until we leave the gate behind
A circle of beads
Now get inside
When life is over
That funny feeling
You can get anywhere from anywhere
Ending is better than mending
Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die
How do you know when your paintings are finished?
Exit pages
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Cubed
A dry, husky business
A segment of the enormous file
Taylorism
Divided against itself
Form follows finance
Serendipity
Office survival
The office landscape
Open-plan the world
In the end, noise would always be a problem, when quiet was not placed at a premium. Interaction and communication were conceived of as norms in the landscaped office; introspection and concentration were sidelines. In the rush to open-plan the world, some crucial values for the performance of work were lost.
The cubicle
The cubicle had the effect of putting people close enough to each other to create serious social annoyances, but dividing them so that they didn’t actually feel that they were working together. It had all the hazards of privacy and sociability but the benefits of neither. It got so bad that nobody wanted them taken away; even those three walls offered some kind of psychological home, a place one could call one’s own. All these factors could deepen the frenzied solitude of an office worker.
Chilled-out anxiety
Working in the typical dot-com office was an admixture of frenetic pace and a relaxed overall atmosphere, exemplifying that chilled-out anxiety which was the general mood of the 1990’s.
A resource
The office, Chiat argued, had become the site of a turf war, not a place to do work. Changing the office “means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics,” he argued. “You come to work because the office is a resource.”