Americanism
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.
Burnout:
* Exhaustion caused by constantly feeling swamped and excessive/prolonged emotional, mental, & physical stress
* Often related to one's job or caretaking roles
* Symptoms include difficulty concentrating, forgetfulness, fatigue, loss of motivation, feelings of dread
* May still be... See more
tiktok.comMoral injury
Donations to the NRA increase 30% the year after a school shooting occurs in a county.
Theodore Roszak, who coined the term counterculture in his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, later defined its unifying characteristic as ‘the rebellion against certain essential elements of industrial society: the priesthood of technical expertise, the world view of mainstream science and the social dominance of the corporate community’.
internal IBM training in 1979
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
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The Sociology of Business, Ana Andjelic
“15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”
— Noah Smith
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