The Inner Workings of Firms

I was working on resumes and dog walking; riding my bike around town and working at the coalition offices. I was reviewing my old resumes because of an email from an old coworker. I had been reflecting a lot in my writings over this incident and it gave me a lot of insight on how firms work. I believe what happened is my old coworker called a number of us about a job posting and management from the old job heard about it. I thought that the progression in of emails in my inbox told an interesting story since it didn’t seem especially clear to anyone what was going on. However, after reflecting upon the incidents in aggregate I could only conclude that this was part of some back stage tug-of-war over skilled personnel. I never felt all that close to any of the people who had contacted me and that it was terribly out of context for them. So to check on whether I was hallucinating, I told the story to a number of disinterested parties and they all seemed to say the same thing. Clearly the inner workings of firms aren’t very opaque at all.

I went to the Berkeley Map Library. It has the largest collection of air photos I have ever seen.


This is a regular series chronicling my life at regular intervals. This Memo series is meant to be a retrospective of what I have written and experienced. In each of these posts I use my notes in conjunction with memory, mementos and souvenirs to create a snap shot of my life. I wrote this on the 26th of May and posted it to the blog on June 13th.