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> Performative work reflects the reality that the output of most office jobs just doesn't matter that much.

I disagree. Performative work reflects the reality that most office jobs have concrete results that are hard to measure individually, separated in time and/or space from the work, and highly dependent on other office work that shares the first two features.



Also, a lot of them are asynchronous and you’re only actually needed around all the time to keep the latency down when there is a task.

Or if you’re in QA you’re running tests that almost always pass but they do fail sometimes.




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