Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
How can a startup survive in this environment? The answer is deceptively simple: Have good taste.
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
He was hailed a hero by some and met with predictions of bankruptcy from his critics.
But that has not happened; instead, the company is thriving.
"So you've almost doubled the number of employees?" CBS News' Carter Evans asked.
"Yeah," Price replied.
He said his company has tripled and he is still paying his employees $70,000 a year.
"How much do you... See more
But that has not happened; instead, the company is thriving.
"So you've almost doubled the number of employees?" CBS News' Carter Evans asked.
"Yeah," Price replied.
He said his company has tripled and he is still paying his employees $70,000 a year.
"How much do you... See more
CEO on why giving all employees minimum salary of $70,000 still "works" six years later: "Our turnover rate was cut in half"
A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury
app.thestorygraph.com
If freedom means anything, Douglass stated in 1865, it means “the right to choose one’s own employment.”
Black people didn’t risk their lives to vote just because they liked voting. Casting a ballot is not an end in itself. They risked their lives to elect leaders who would help them access the well-paid jobs that they had long been denied. The march on Washington in 1963—where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream”
... See moreFarah Stockman • American Made
In addition to the ideal of freedom, The Civil Rights Movement was driven by the practical and urgent need for better-paying jobs and economic security.
Economic class, more than race, often determines people’s access to security and opportunity.
In times like these, the craving for certainty and the human instinct to avoid hard work are incredibly challenging to work through. Getting more information sounds smarter. Brainstorming sounds smarter. A whiteboard discussion sounds smarter. But the real work is focused on making the demo in order to give people a specific, concrete, example of... See more
Help the best idea win – Herbert Lui
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