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“Like every other state-of-the-art conference room AV system in the history of the world, it failed to work on the first go and so it was necessary to summon someone who understood how it worked; and like all such persons he could not be found.”
― Termination Shock
― Termination Shock
“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
“Every year, Gallup releases a wide-ranging study of the effects of “lack of engagement,” which it measures through a twelve-question survey asking employees to gauge their agreement with various statements, from “I know what is expected of me at work” to “At work, my opinions seem to count.” Within Gallup’s conception, “engagement” is a measurement of how much employees themselves are invested in the work but also of how much their managers and leaders are investing in them.”
― 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
“Work expands to fill the time available to it, and digital technologies gradually and efficiently carved more and more time out of our nonwork lives.”
― 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
“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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