Chapter 15

The Future of Work, Part 2

The title of this book is a reference to a running joke that appeared on Team Social's P2. No one is sure how it started, but the pants reference appeared on our P2's changeable prompt. Few noticed it, since by default it said something civilized like, “What's on your mind?” or, “How can Team Social help you?” and when it changed, they didn't notice. But for many months it said: “Do you know where your pants are?”

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Pants, or lack thereof, came up often on conversations on our P2, as this conversation from February 2011 captures:

Mdawaffe (Adams): Apparently Nikolay doesn't know yet of our team's predilection ...

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