WELCOME TO THE·BY·PRODUCT. A WEEKLY RECAP OF WHAT IS GOING DOWN & WHAT IS COMING UP ON THE INTERNET. THIS WEEK IS KINDA RANDOM. AND THAT IS NOT A BAD THING. WE HOP FROM TROPES AND TRENDS IN A BUNCH OF ADS ALL BEING THE SAME, HOW TO HIRE, AN AMAZING NEW RELEASE OF CAT-GPT, AND A WAY TO TURN THE INTERNET INTO BLANK CANVASES.
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THIS WEEK’S HOT TAKE
WHEN YOU INVENT THE SHIP, YOU INVENT THE SHIPWRECK.
ALL ABOARD
The purpose of onboarding should be setting new hires up for success and decreasing the time it takes for them to become comfortable in their new roles. This only works if onboarding processes are designed strategically with the end goal in mind. But onboarding has become even more challenging with the rise of remote and hybrid work. In a 2020 survey by Workable, respondents in HR reported remote onboarding or training as the biggest hiring challenge during the pandemic, and it continues to challenge employers. / Via HBR
FEAR OF HIPSTERS
Hipster-phobia refers to a fear of trendy people, and an instinctive desire to avoid those who dress in hipster street styles and frequent China’s popular shopping areas. The term reflects some citizens’ anxiousness and embarrassment when meeting these fashionistas, and includes reactions like being afraid of eye contact, avoiding starting conversations, and socially distancing themselves. / Via Jing Daily
TRASH TALK
The “Office of Invisibility,” an interdisciplinary art project that spotlights and reinterprets archival media from DSNY, the artist’s tentative end goal is to spark curiosity from the public about sanitation practices. Len, the current “Artist in Residence” hopes to re-contextualize the DSNY as diligently working toward a healthier and more sustainable city rather than as a group of invisible laborers operating on autopilot. / Via Hyperallergic
MARC YOUR CALENDARS
The venture capitalist and long-time tech-head Marc Andreessen launched a Substack. Low-key wish he would make it all about Netscape. / Via Substack
MEOW, WEOW
We have reached peak-chatbot. The tool you never thought you needed until meow. / Via CAT-GPT
GETTING UP
What if you could make my drawings visible to everybody, almost as if they were some kind of digital graffiti, truly making the web a public space? Check out this project called World Wide Walls. / Via OIO
FRESH POWDER
"There's a lot less energy around here when no one feels like they can get out and ride... The positive is that it increases the energy and commitment around our climate work. But it's hard for it not to take a toll emotionally."
This weekend, Ali Kenney, Chief Strategy Officer at Burton, was featured in The New York Times along with other Burton Athletes and Ambassadors, focusing on the steps they are taking to minimize our environmental impact and ensure others will be able to snowboard for generations to come. / Via NYTimes
MATCH POINT
Matching sets are having a moment right now, as evidenced by a ton of cool designers putting out great examples for 2023. / Via Concorde
POP SCENE
Although he is used to being the voice and talent behind Blur and Gorillaz, Damon Albarn is giving Zane Lowe an up-close look at who he is. / Via Apple Music
HELLO, GOODBYE
Have you seen it? It is everywhere. Hello, hello, hello. Brands want to say hello to everything. / Via Twitter
NO STRATEGY
One major reason for the lack of action is that “new strategies” are often not strategies at all. A real strategy involves a clear set of choices that define what the firm is going to do and what it’s not going to do. Many strategies fail to get implemented, despite the ample efforts of hard-working people, because they do not represent a set of clear choices. / Via HBR
WORDS ON WORDS
Over the two days of the conference Matt Klein began to note (and draft a taxonomy) of our inconsistent vocabulary describing our confusing, blurry moment.
All the words below are related within the category — and each bullet has it’s own theme of similarity / Via ZINE
ONE THOUSAND WORDS
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