Ilana Ettinger
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Ilana Ettinger
To be sure, we’re seeing the erosion of the ideal of an employee whose family responsibilities are kept tastefully out of sight.
Joan C. Williams • The Pandemic Has Exposed the Fallacy of the “Ideal Worker”
Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don’t like and are not especially good at.
David Graeber • On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (366ES) — Atlas of Places
The labor-market conditions that will generate convergence in pay between genders – the technological and institutional changes that reduce the cost of temporal flexibility – will make life better for almost everybody.
Claudia Goldin • How to Achieve Gender Equality
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
How to do it: 1. Define a larger cause. 2. Articulate the problem better than anyone else. 3. Attack the status quo. 4. Define a category. 5. Build the right team. 6. Use “grassroots” customer testimony. 7. Release news in lightning strikes, not dribs and drabs. 8. Organize events to focus attention.9. Nurture your community. 10. Pick noble... See more
David Sacks • Your Startup Is a Movement
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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