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“Wrong beliefs and wrong perceptions are contagious whether or not they are sincere, because dissidents tend to self-censor and act like believers. That is how entire societies, such as the Soviet Union, can be built on everyone’s publicly pretending to believe what many privately know to be false. After a while, in a community where people are struggling to conform with each other, it can be very hard, even in principle, to know whether people are sincere or faking, or even which is which.”
― The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
― The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
“In both situations, few companies find reason to recalibrate. If the work is getting done with fewer people, why change what isn’t broken? The problem, of course, is that the worker is breaking. It might take several years for that breakage to have measurable ramifications, but it will. The recent shift to remote work has offered a unique opportunity to discern just how much work you’re doing. Not “official” work done in the office versus furtive work done at home, but total work.”
― Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
― Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
“Maybe Socrates would rather be right than popular, but most of us prefer to maintain our good standing with our tribe, a reasonable call when one considers that Socrates was executed by his fellow citizens.”
― The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
― The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
“People were expensive; the way to display, or to enjoy, great wealth was to build an environment that could only have been wrought, and could only be sustained from one hour to the next, by unceasing human effort.”
― Termination Shock
― Termination Shock
“Black Americans recognize the necessity of standing in solidarity, but they also have a human desire to be distinct and unique. Racism attacks both. It exacerbates the need for unity while also reducing black people to a throng of carbon copies—it makes solidarity an existential imperative and mutes the individualism of each group member. The consequence is a group seen as homogenous by those on the outside looking in and as heterogeneous by those on the inside peering out, creating a destructive incongruence between how black citizens are viewed and how they view themselves.”
― When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America
― When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America
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