This is the kind of failure mode that makes people nervous about tightly coupled identity + device management

Apple's clean separation model only really works if you start that way from day one

There's a real gap for small businesses that are too big for ad-hoc setups but too small for full IT

This is a fun idea

It really highlights how much we associate "good design" with aesthetics first, even though function is doing most of the heavy lifting

This is such a great reminder that "good design" is mostly invisible until it breaks

I think this is true for a certain category of worker, but it depends heavily on whether the flexibility is actually symmetrical in practice

For largely unskilled service sector jobs, where one might consider the worker relatively interchangeable, it is particularly bad if your government also has an "infinite immigration" policy in practice.[1]

[1] Inward migration to the UK was 1.3M people in the year to June 2023. UK population was about 67/68M at the time.

Huh, I expected that to be a Ukraine related surge given the time period chosen but actually Ukraine looks to be (eyeballing a graph here) about 150,000 max in 2022 (if it counted for 100% of humanitarian cases) and 50,000 in 2024: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

Anyway, looks like migration is now down to about 480,000, with the big drop occuring in the second half of 2024.

Zero-hours contracts probably started as a pragmatic tool for genuinely small, volatile businesses, but they scaled into something very different when large employers adopted them systematically

This feels like one of those policies where the intent makes sense, but the second-order effects are going to matter a lot

In some cases it might even make the mismatch worse. If one person can produce drafts, specs, or code much faster, you just create more work for reviewers, approvers, and downstream dependencies, which increases queueing