Ilana Ettinger
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Ilana Ettinger
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
on the concept of Combinatory Play
Greenwald proclaimed that competitive advantages fell into two distinct camps, customer captivity and resource captivity , and that the strength of these advantages were a function of scale.
Rick Zullo • Companies Build “Capabilities” Before They Build “Moats”
For instance: in our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it. Again, an objective measure is hard to find, but one easy way to get a sense is to ask: what would happen were this entire class of people to simply disappear? Say what you like about nurses,... See more
David Graeber • On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (366ES) — Atlas of Places
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
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