Americanism
Risk is expensive, and it does not figure into P&L. When the pressure is to show YoY growth on the quarterly basis, as is the case of the publicly traded companies, or when expectation is to deliver wild returns in case of PE-backed ones, no one wants to make anything remotely surprising or different. Prada is able to put forward fearless... See more
Ana Andjelic
Cognitive load is like playing an iterated game of diminishing returns. Every choice—every click, every scroll—saps a little more of your mental energy. By the time you’re 20 decisions deep, your ability to make intentional choices is shot. It’s not that you’ve lost the game; you’ve been worn down by it.
In behavioral economics, this is known as... See more
In behavioral economics, this is known as... See more
The Sociology of Business, Ana Andjelic
People often, for example, oppose the actions and belief systems of billionaires, but take jobs at companies that increase the power and influence of those same billionaires. It’s not because these job-seekers are bad people, but because we are all operating in a system that makes aligning our values and our everyday lives seem impossible.
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Why it’s so hard to align our work with our values, and how we justify not trying.
In Pasadena, California, photographer Gregg Segal embarked on a project capturing individuals from diverse backgrounds and ages within his garden. Utilizing three distinct settings - water, beach, and forest - Segal juxtaposed each subject amidst a week’s accumulation of their waste. Participants were tasked with gathering and preserving all their... See more
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internal IBM training in 1979
“The growing speed of daily life, of news and work and play was a fetish of artists and industrialists alike,” Blom writes. “Never before had so much social change occurred so quickly.” As daily life sped up, people in the west started to break down.
Around the turn of the century, a nervous disorder first diagnosed in the U.S. gradually made its... See more
Around the turn of the century, a nervous disorder first diagnosed in the U.S. gradually made its... See more
1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind