Ilana Ettinger
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Ilana Ettinger
“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
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
on the concept of Combinatory Play
Uncertainty. Anger. Despair. Envy. When you’re overwhelmed by big feelings, it can seem like you’re the only one who is struggling. But having difficult emotions doesn’t mean you’re malfunctioning. It means you’re human.
Mollie West Duffy • Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
“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
Knowledge work is less structured, more spontaneous, and harder to teach. “Our knowledge,” says Glaeser, “builds on things that we learn from people around us.“ Being close to other knowledge workers makes it easier for us to learn new things and develop new ideas. As such, knowledge work is best done in cities.
Keeping NYC On Top
Like “future of work” companies, workforce development companies are focused on addressing challenges in the labor markets. But unlike “future of work” companies, which are ambiguously defined to include a wide array of companies, the workforce development category is precisely focused on solutions that improve the quantity and quality of labor.
... See moreOliver Hsu • Building the American Workforce | Andreessen Horowitz
Productize to segments and use casesPrice for value and then back out costs to find marginSell benefits not featuresPrice before product - figure out the value firstBundle leading items with additional features