Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?

If you open this newsletter all the time, if you forward to your friends and co-workers, if it challenges you to think in new and different ways — consider subscribing. You get access to the weekly Things I Read and Loved at the end of the Sunday newsletter, the massive links/recs posts, the ability to comment, and the knowledge that you’re paying for the stuff that adds value to your life. Plus, there’s the threads: like yesterday’s 500+ ideas for lunches that require no effort and last Friday’s amazingly generative What Are You Doing On Hard Mode? Last month, a friend of mine who we’ll call Jane bought a nice mid-century modern bedframe from Wayfair. She was moving into a place of her own and had to buy several items to outfit the space, so she decided to spend more on the couch and less on the bedframe. Wayfair’s looked nice, the reviews were good, and best of all, they didn’t charge for shipping. The bed parts would arrive, unassembled, in a few big boxes. This friend has some p ... Read full article.