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Tl;dr: WEB Dubois and The Souls of Black Folk
A classic, somehow missed by me in high school and college. Returning to it now as the new litigators of this topic like Coates and Cornell West have been tussling, and as new movements related to racial justice around incarceration,

Tl;dr: WEB Dubois and The Souls of Black Folk
A classic, somehow missed by me in high school and college. Returning to it now as the new litigators of this topic like Coates and Cornell West have been tussling, and as new movements related to racial justice around incarceration,

Tl;dr of Who by Smart and Street
If you tell powerful people what they want to hear, you will get book blurbs from them and consulting engagements. Who highlights Reading Who by Geoff Smart 17 new photos added to shared album Old me would have luxuriated in

Tl;dr of Who by Smart and Street
If you tell powerful people what they want to hear, you will get book blurbs from them and consulting engagements. Who highlights Reading Who by Geoff Smart 17 new photos added to shared album Old me would have luxuriated in

When trouble comes to the palace
David sometimes wins. The Yahoo Peanut Butter Memo The Nokia Burning Platform Can’t think of a famous defensive pivot. Apple came back from the dead. Microsoft retreated on consumer. Facebook made the pivot to mobile. But when Facebook today is

When trouble comes to the palace
David sometimes wins. The Yahoo Peanut Butter Memo The Nokia Burning Platform Can’t think of a famous defensive pivot. Apple came back from the dead. Microsoft retreated on consumer. Facebook made the pivot to mobile. But when Facebook today is

Productivity systems of the nerdy and obsessive
Lifetime highlight. A note from my idol on a topic I care a lot about with the gesture that maybe he cares what I think! More of my relevant writings here

Productivity systems of the nerdy and obsessive
Lifetime highlight. A note from my idol on a topic I care a lot about with the gesture that maybe he cares what I think! More of my relevant writings here

Tl;dr: Laszlo Bock’s “Work Rules” and googling “diversity” / updated
The famous Google People Operations chief wrote a book in 2015. The word “diversity” appears zero times. Here is Google’s Diversity Report from 2014, when they *started* reporting it as a company (or perhaps started measuring it). And here it

Tl;dr: Laszlo Bock’s “Work Rules” and googling “diversity” / updated
The famous Google People Operations chief wrote a book in 2015. The word “diversity” appears zero times. Here is Google’s Diversity Report from 2014, when they *started* reporting it as a company (or perhaps started measuring it). And here it

Tl;dr: Tetlock’s “Expert Political Judgment”
Tetlock is a cognitive psychologist who got much more famous recently for his great book “Superforecasting”. We read it in my Columbia class. That book has a great hook: he runs a contest and sees who wins, describing the habits

Tl;dr: Tetlock’s “Expert Political Judgment”
Tetlock is a cognitive psychologist who got much more famous recently for his great book “Superforecasting”. We read it in my Columbia class. That book has a great hook: he runs a contest and sees who wins, describing the habits

Tl;dr: Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”
Highlights I came to Sontag late. Her “On Photography” is amazing. But the first piece of criticism is “Against Interpretation.” What does it say? That art seems to be hijacked by critics. They want to know what a work says,

Tl;dr: Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”
Highlights I came to Sontag late. Her “On Photography” is amazing. But the first piece of criticism is “Against Interpretation.” What does it say? That art seems to be hijacked by critics. They want to know what a work says,

“Sarva”, an uncommon name; what does it mean?
All, every. Whole, entire. Of of relating to Vishnu or Shiva. Also, something about hurting or injuring when spelling differently, and sometimes combined with the Shiva thing into a meaning about striking down evil.

“Sarva”, an uncommon name; what does it mean?
All, every. Whole, entire. Of of relating to Vishnu or Shiva. Also, something about hurting or injuring when spelling differently, and sometimes combined with the Shiva thing into a meaning about striking down evil.

Tl;dl: Freakonomics interviews people who got great ideas
Freakonomics on good ideas Luck Motion Prepared mind Distinctive action Margaret Geller – feeling free. So an idea can come structured the shortcut approach to a view Used a new tech Had a new map of the cosmos George Dyson

Tl;dl: Freakonomics interviews people who got great ideas
Freakonomics on good ideas Luck Motion Prepared mind Distinctive action Margaret Geller – feeling free. So an idea can come structured the shortcut approach to a view Used a new tech Had a new map of the cosmos George Dyson
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