Email, like leaf blowers and Sean Penn, is one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time but eventually became a never-ending plague of irritation. How many emails do you receive each day? Dozens? And how many of them are actually useful, especially when they come from within your own company and they're filled with pointless corpo-speak?
I'd say roughly zero, but let's sharpen our pencils and circle back on that figure. Hope this helps. Thanks much!
Mondays: A Sisyphean Typing Game(opens in new tab) is a free-to-play typing sim that has you copy randomly generated intercompany emails packed with meaningless buzzwords. To demonstrate the fruitlessness of your tasks, each letter you type pushes a massive boulder a tiny fraction up a hill that only grows steeper. Get a letter wrong and there's no backspace—you immediately roll back down the hill with your boulder and have to start again. Rise and grind.
Sisyphus, to refresh your memory, was a king in Greek mythology who was so darn clever he kept talking his way out of death. Zeus and Hades eventually got so pissed off with the smartass king they sentenced him to eternal torment by forcing him to roll a massive boulder up a hill, and as soon as he got the boulder near the top it would roll all the way back down. This is that, but in a free typing game.
Unlike Sisyphus, you can have a little fun with your boulder. As you type horrific phrases like «Integrally, we're agile and disruptive» and «Key takeaways include boosting the company DNA» and «There's a massive yield predicted if we upskill our contracted staff» you earn money. That money can be spent customizing your boulder with hats, eyes, sunglasses, shoes, and other cosmetics, which are shoved in your
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