“For all the grandiose talk about The Light Of Consciousness and The Future Of
Humanity that has come out of Silicon Valley during its ascent, what it has
delivered has mostly been spectacularly useless, lifeless, and anti-human. In
this sense, it reflects its owners perfectly.”
David Roth ,
Everything Is Silicon Valley Now
(Defector ,
November 14, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/21/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Here, rare earth extraction cleared 90 percent efficiency, taking
67 hours to get there. By contrast, leaching didn’t max out until
130 hours after extraction started, and its maximum efficiency was only
60 percent. Again, the extraction that used electricity had fewer
contaminating metals.”
posted 11/17/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Strategy and product visions only go so far. And success in those areas has
limited impact on real company culture. What makes working at a company
fulfilling is actually quite simple. You have to align the goals of your
organization with the health and stability of the employees.”
“We should ask ourselves, our communities, and our government: if a business
can’t pay a living wage, should it be a business? If it’s too expensive for
businesses to provide healthcare for their workers, maybe we need to decouple it
from employment?”
Anne Helen Petersen ,
The “Capitalism is Broken” Economy
(April 21, 2021 )
posted 4/26/2021 10:52pm ∞
“Roosevelt and his advisers never had a master plan. Rather, in the
administration’s first 100 days, they implemented a flurry of laws and
regulations. If those programs worked, they remained. If they didn’t, they
were dropped, to be replaced by others.”
Lizabeth Cohen ,
The Lessons of the Great Depression
(The Atlantic ,
May 2020 )
posted 3/25/2021 8:53pm ∞