Ilana Ettinger
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Ilana Ettinger
The Conversationalist
conversationalist.org
To win tomorrow’s war for talent, companies will need to construct new types of employee experiences. The best ones will blend the freedom and opportunity of working for the internet with the scale and community of traditional employment.
Nick deWilde • Why the new employer of choice is no employer at all
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. (Man... See more
David Graeber • On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (366ES) — Atlas of Places
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
Strategy and
The Most Popular Idea I've Ever Invented (PARA Method) | Part 1
youtu.beAn interesting way of organizing multiple workstreams in life - especially relevant for people with portfolio careers or multiple businesses or varied projects and interests
We have instinctual responses to help us choose the objects that meet our most basic needs—when we’re hungry, we seek food; when we’re cold, we want warmth. But there is an entire universe of desires for which we have no instinctual basis for choosing one object or another. For these objects of desire, Girard saw that the most important factor in
... See moreLuke Burgis • Why Everyone Wants the Same Things
on the concept of Combinatory Play