Minimally Useful Industries -- Where Wondering Meets Wandering

We’re Minimally Useful Industries and we don't have a plan other than to go where the road takes us. Or perhaps that interesting looking bumpy path just off the road. We’ve been around the block a few times. We’ve worked for startups, big corporate jobs and even failed at pitching (debatably) AMAZING ideas at tech incubators trying to become “disruptors” and “visionaries”. Throughout our process of failures (is it considered failing upward if you’re never successful?), we’ve found that there’s really only one thing that we consistently circle back to: making fun of bullshit business. So, we doubled down and made Minimally Useful Industries to act as a satirical lighthouse in the sea of bullshit business.

Do we plan to try to make money at some point? Eh. Maybe. We’ve got a card game that pokes fun at corporate jobs that we plan to KickStarter sometime in the near future, but money isn’t the first priority. Doing silly shit to make fun of all those terrible and unnecessary businesses out there is our first priority - and that starts with (hopefully) you and The Hit Job.

Our introduction to the world is like many other amazing companies. A series of articles. The series is our take on an observation we’ve made as employees of several different companies for whom we’ve worked. These companies actively work to steal additional amounts of their employees’ time (with little to no additional compensation), and these tricksters think that they can just go on with this theft without anyone calling them on their bullshit.

Moreover, being the extraordinary people we are, we don’t just complain about the problem. We present some ways of identifying your own situation and working through it. We at Minimally Useful Industries like to think of ourselves as problem solvers. No matter how inconsequential the problem or how absurd the solution. The series attacks the problem by providing our readers with a SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) based survival guide on how a corporate drone might liberate their time from their corporate overlords, or prevent the time theft from happening in the first place.

We'll be releasing this series over the coming weeks because, well, we need to check them for typos. Perhaps even clean up some of the animal analogies or add some more slam poetry. Like we said. We'll just see where this goes.