Ilana Ettinger
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Ilana Ettinger
Overemployment is more than just a style of work. It’s an ideology of individualism and self-reliance held by many who feel that corporations have turned their backs on workers.
Fadeke Adegbuyi • The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job
The bottom line is that 7 Rules of Power provides a clear roadmap for increasing your personal power and status over other people, if that’s what you’re looking to achieve. But it neglects to wrestle fully with the negative impacts of the tactics it espouses.
Charter • ‘7 Rules of Power’ by Jeffrey Pfeffer: How good people can accumulate power
“But the Greeks and the Romans both believed in the idea of an external daemon of creativity—a sort of house elf, if you will, who lived within the walls of your home and who sometimes aided you in your labors. The Romans had a specific term for that helpful house elf. They called it your genius—your guardian deity, the conduit of your inspiration.... See more
Peter Thiel has said that the best startups are like a cult that believes in something true.
David Sacks • Your Startup Is a Movement
“Women need to be twice as good to get half the credit. Fortunately many women are four times as good.” —Alison Davis-Blake, former president of Bentley University (p. 17)
Charter • ‘7 Rules of Power’ by Jeffrey Pfeffer: How good people can accumulate power
A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place. It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish.... See more
David Graeber • On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (366ES) — Atlas of Places
While working for the internet can be rewarding, it can also be an isolating experience, with little room for error.